Children in Dhaing Village, Nepal have to pull themselves
across this terrifying cable bridge every day in order to get
themselves to and from class. Not only children but also
adults who have no choice. It is a lifeline for the residents,
who face danger every day in order to go shopping for
basic amenities or meet friends and family who live on the
other side of the Trishuli River.
The villagers have to sit in either a basic loop of fabric or a
small ramshackle wooden crate and operate the flimsy
cable by hand. Crossers have lost fingers operating these
cables, while in 2010, five people fell into the Trishuli River
after a cable snapped & passed away.
Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Oli recently announced a plan to
replace the dangerous cable crossings with suspension
bridges in the surrounding area but in the meantime Dhaing
residents have no choice but to continue transportating
themselves using these ropes.
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