If You Went to School This Way

What are these children doing?  Sliding for fun or doing extreme sports?  Well, they could take this daily routine as either, but the fact is that they are commuting to school.  Read the excerpt of an RD article to know more about it.  I'm happy that I don't need to do so in daily life.

http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/magazine/readers-digest-main/the-worlds-craziest-commutes

The World's Craziest Commutes

So your bus is stuck in traffic and you’re ten minutes late for work? It could be worse—as these mind-boggling journeys demonstrate…Los Pinos zip wire, ColumbiaForget the perils of bullies on the school bus—for the children of Los Pinos, a village in the Colombian jungle, the trip to and from class holds rather more dramatic dangers. With their settlement cut off from neighbouring communities by a 1,200-foot-deep gorge that takes two hours to walk around, the kids get across using 1,300-foot zip wires.Every morning, around a dozen of them arrive at the launch pad, armed with their own pulley, rope and—crucially—a piece of wood to use as a brake so they don’t slam into the tyres on the other side at 40mph. Smaller pupils are bundled into hessian sacks and tied to older children. Some 60 adults brave the trip daily, too, often transporting supplies. Nobody knows what the zips’ weight limits are, but locals have carried animals, large food parcels and even furniture across, and the steel cables haven’t broken. Yet. My comments: How I love the sentence: "It could be worse"!  It makes us start to count our blessings. I love the last word "Yet," too, carrying a hint of humor.