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Incredible, period. Some pictures for everyone who is curious but is too lazy to search: http://www.theindianblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/dashrath_ma

Incredible, period. Some pictures for everyone who is curious but is too lazy to search: http://www.theindianblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/dashrath_manjhi11.jpg http://www.theindianblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/d... http://images.jagran.com/inext/Inext_p_SC_2Powerof1.jpg http://images.jagran.com/inext/Inext_p_SC_2Powerof1.jpg http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/406442_353859024699081_543455915_b.jpg http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/406442_35385902...

seanalltogether 14y ago
I wish I could find a satellite map of the road cut into the mountain, I'm having a hard time appreciating how this path was able to cut 67 km out of the journey.
- dchest 14y ago
  It's linked from the Wikipedia article. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&t=h&z=11 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&t=h&#...
  - mkl 14y ago
    So it is. Doh, I just spent 15 minutes tracking it down (and I didn't quite get it right - there's another cutting through the same ridge a bit south west which I guess is newer). Here [1] is a 3D diagram in a video (not English) about it, with the nearest town labelled Vazirganj. It's Wazirganj on Google maps, south of the cutting, so Gahlour must be the small village to the north west. [1] http://youtu.be/3E84EIKlY4g?t=3m8s http://youtu.be/3E84EIKlY4g?t=3m8s
    - jlmendezbonini 14y ago
      I had some time to kill so I downloaded Google Earth but still wasn't able to find the village "Gahlour". However, I was able to verify that the distance from the mentioned coordinate and "Wazirganj" is indeed ~8Km as stated by Wikipedia. Google Earth screenshot for those obsessed by this story too: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336184/24.877093%2C85.242956.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336184/24.877093%2C85.242956.jpg
  - sesqu 14y ago
    Another link in the article pointed to Topomapper which had the best map, in my opinion - an old Yahoo! map. (If you also want to find Atri, it's on the OSM and Bing maps). http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85.24296&zoom=13&layers=00000000B00F http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85...
  - jacobn 14y ago
    Terrain mode shows it more clearly: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&ll=24.877171,85.24395&spn=0.019389,0.038581&t=p&z=15 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&ll=24... (you'll want to view all of the maps linked to in this sub-thread)
  - martin-adams 14y ago
    Okay, I give up. I can't figure out where the original 75km came from looking at the google map.
    - dchest 14y ago
      Here you can see a long road around the mountain http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85.24296&zoom=13&layers=00000000B00F http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85... (thanks, sesqu)
- deleted 14y ago
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solox3 14y ago
Title is misleading. In your second link, it could be seen that Dashrath Manjhi carved using two hands.
- DanBC 14y ago
  Hands are people who work with their hands; thus "hired hands" are hired workers, or hired sailors. These uses have existed for over 300 years. There is one person working, thus a single hand. (Albeit that single hand has two hands.)
- shabble 14y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
- eps 14y ago
  Hahaha, good one :) Some people just don't have a sense of humour... but they surely aren't lacking the downvote rights.
  - kingnothing 14y ago
    The comment above added nothing to the discussion and should be downvoted, just like yours.
    - MortenK 14y ago
      And yours?

seanalltogether 14y ago

I wish I could find a satellite map of the road cut into the mountain, I'm having a hard time appreciating how this path was able to cut 67 km out of the journey.

dchest 14y ago
It's linked from the Wikipedia article. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&t=h&z=11 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&t=h&#...
- mkl 14y ago
  So it is. Doh, I just spent 15 minutes tracking it down (and I didn't quite get it right - there's another cutting through the same ridge a bit south west which I guess is newer). Here [1] is a 3D diagram in a video (not English) about it, with the nearest town labelled Vazirganj. It's Wazirganj on Google maps, south of the cutting, so Gahlour must be the small village to the north west. [1] http://youtu.be/3E84EIKlY4g?t=3m8s http://youtu.be/3E84EIKlY4g?t=3m8s
  - jlmendezbonini 14y ago
    I had some time to kill so I downloaded Google Earth but still wasn't able to find the village "Gahlour". However, I was able to verify that the distance from the mentioned coordinate and "Wazirganj" is indeed ~8Km as stated by Wikipedia. Google Earth screenshot for those obsessed by this story too: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336184/24.877093%2C85.242956.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336184/24.877093%2C85.242956.jpg
- sesqu 14y ago
  Another link in the article pointed to Topomapper which had the best map, in my opinion - an old Yahoo! map. (If you also want to find Atri, it's on the OSM and Bing maps). http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85.24296&zoom=13&layers=00000000B00F http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85...
- jacobn 14y ago
  Terrain mode shows it more clearly: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&ll=24.877171,85.24395&spn=0.019389,0.038581&t=p&z=15 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&ll=24... (you'll want to view all of the maps linked to in this sub-thread)
- martin-adams 14y ago
  Okay, I give up. I can't figure out where the original 75km came from looking at the google map.
  - dchest 14y ago
    Here you can see a long road around the mountain http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85.24296&zoom=13&layers=00000000B00F http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85... (thanks, sesqu)
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solox3 14y ago

Title is misleading. In your second link, it could be seen that Dashrath Manjhi carved using two hands.

DanBC 14y ago
Hands are people who work with their hands; thus "hired hands" are hired workers, or hired sailors. These uses have existed for over 300 years. There is one person working, thus a single hand. (Albeit that single hand has two hands.)
shabble 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
eps 14y ago
Hahaha, good one :) Some people just don't have a sense of humour... but they surely aren't lacking the downvote rights.
- kingnothing 14y ago
  The comment above added nothing to the discussion and should be downvoted, just like yours.
  - MortenK 14y ago
    And yours?