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fizmat

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Dvarfiest man alive is from Bihar
« on: December 02, 2009, 05:03:57 pm »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/01/india-tunnel-14-years
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An Indian villager burrowed for 14 years with a hammer and chisel to cut a tunnel through a mountain so that his neighbours could reach nearby fields and he could park his truck outside his home.

Holey mountain, Ramchandra Das dug a tunnel 4m wide and 10m long (that's 13 by 33 feet for you non-metric folk) and high enough to let through a truck without even using a pickaxe! I know it's probably offtopic, but this deserves a mention. You try doing somethong like that. (Unfortunately, I couldn't find any pictures of the tunnel, mostly stock photos at newssites). And the man who inspired him dug a bigger tunnel for 22 years.
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Re: Dvarfiest man alive is from Bihar
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2009, 05:09:32 pm »
Technically, Dasharath Manjhi, the other person listed in the article is, but you said "alive", so I guess not.
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Re: Dvarfiest man alive is from Bihar
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2009, 06:17:18 pm »
I don't understand ... a 10m long tunnel through a mountain that everyone had to trek 7 km around.

That doesn't make any sense.

If the mountain were just 10m thick how could it be 7 km around it? This really needs pictures.
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Re: Dvarfiest man alive is from Bihar
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2009, 07:12:46 pm »
Quote from: LeoLeonardoIII on December 03, 2009, 06:17:18 pm
I don't understand ... a 10m long tunnel through a mountain that everyone had to trek 7 km around.

That doesn't make any sense.

If the mountain were just 10m thick how could it be 7 km around it? This really needs pictures.

It's not 7 km as the crow flies.  Roads over mountains are usually very indirect, with lots of switchbacks.
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Re: Dvarfiest man alive is from Bihar
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2009, 07:40:43 pm »
Still, 10 metres causing a 7km trek... Must've been a really tall mountain or people would've just scaled the bugger.
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Re: Dvarfiest man alive is from Bihar
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2009, 08:26:49 pm »
We'll see how dwarfy he is...

How many of his friends can he take out when there is a cave-in?
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Re: Dvarfiest man alive is from Bihar
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2009, 08:31:22 pm »
Plus does he drink a whole barrel of rum every month?
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