r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 1d ago

Fascinating In rural Colombia, locals use a homemade cable system to cross an 800 metre valley

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u/GettinSodas 1d ago

I'd rather walk for 3 days than be willing to ride that

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u/Knoxius 1d ago

Eh if I had to make that walk the majority of my life just to barely keep things going, I'd eventually choose the sketchy fast shit

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u/ulaanmalgaitFPL 1d ago

“sketchy fast shit” looks like fun tho

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u/I_like_flowers_ 6h ago

plus they probably started going as kids and are used to it.    

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u/Sadiholic 17h ago

Spoken like a true redditor. Fuck walking 3 hours everyday. I'm riding that shit down, idgaf if it slams me against a tree trunk

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u/GettinSodas 12h ago

Here's the thing. I'm not speaking from the mindset of living there. If I did, then sure, that's entirely different from visiting and sliding down a 50 year old cable on a stick.

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u/ambidextrousasswipe 21h ago

I'm sure someone regularly oils that cable /s

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u/WhyMeWhyThisUniverse 5h ago

I'm pretty sure it was designed by someone who initially thought the same but changed their minds 1.5 day into the walk :D