Ahh! Beat me! Crazy stuff.

That's annoying...

Hopefully some retired dude with a few hundred extra bucks will supply them with real harnesses carabiners etc. etc... you like to try the nylon webbing harness? or do you want to try the burlap sack again?

Heeeee! I paid more then that cable is worth for a single ride in an attraction park doing the same thing and they get it for free? Man, live just isnt fair.

Oh. My. God.
Great sift, love the title!

That would be Colombia.

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I kept waiting for the Mountain Dew logo.

.. a place where everything is down hill... awesome. =P

They didn't show how they get back up.

They showed one clip of them coming back up. Basically the same thing but they pull themselves up by the cable the whole dang way!

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Lost Penis? Did I catch the name of that town correctly?

"Columbia!! FUCK YEAH!!"

no... they have two cables , and strong climbing legs...

It would be fun to rub the whole cable down with grease and see if it affects their braking...

I had a similar idea when I was 7 or 8.

New York (and other major metropolitan area) skyscrapers could be connected by a network of waterslides that allowed quick access up or down Manhattan. Office attire may need to be rethought, and perhaps in winter it would be more of a luge, but same idea.

Need to go uptown but can't afford the taxi, change into your trunks and onto the uptown express tube slide you go!

Colombian kids have it made!

lmao @ choggie, deathcow and hueco_tanks

Use rubber chicken on wire
"Wow!! It works both ways!!"¹


rotflmao@many comments.
one of the best-commented videos on the sift, i'd award an extra point for that!!
especially somegeek's comment, rotfl.
btw *documentary, right?

¹: not sure about correctness of the line, I played it in italian (and that was even better since it said something like "It works both ways! What a chicken!")

my guess is (sorry to ruin the sarchasim joke roll) the mountain they are on is connected at the top to neartop of a nearby mountain, and therefore a 2nd line can run to the middle of the first mountain as a return trip. While the distance apart is probably great, its no where near the mountain valley trip. IMO the breaking system is way primitive, also why are several of the kids going with no parents? Parent of the year award for sure here. I can see the eldest going for supplies, but they don't need to take the whole brady bunch along.

Anyways as mentioned before, it would be nice if someone could splurge and atleast purchase or donate proper harnesses to these people.

why?

this is... nice. I mean, it's so peculiar, and if they are ok with it...

well, maybe they aren't ok with it, I don't know. But innovations are not automatically a good thing.

and I think that any medical emergency wouldn't be solved by simply having a monorail or something, it would need the helicopters anyway.

Hard to believe but _part_ of mountain 1 is taller than _part_ of mountain 2, and _part_ of mountain 2 is taller than _part_ of mountain 1. This enables 2 cables to be run between the same two hillsides....

What? Of course it can be.

Mountains are high, let's say, 2500m, and 2000m.

You start a rope at 1900m, that goes to the other mountain down to 1850m. Then in the other mountain another rope that starts at 1850m, that goes down to the first mountain at 1800m. Or you can use the rubber chicken, of course.

Where's the problem?

To elaborate for those who didn't actually listen to the video: There's two cables. One that leads INTO the village, and one that leads OUT of it.

Anyway, that looks fun. I hate that damn dramatic scare-music they play in the background.

I call *kids and *travel on this one.

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