Power of one

Likās neticams tas teikums no 70km uz 1km. Meklējot internetā par pārsteigumu izrādījās viņa stāsts diezgan patiess, bet ne tik pārspīlēts. Viņš tiešām noraka kalnu un samazināja ceļu līdz ciemam no 55km līdz 15km. Teiciens "gāzt kalnus" vairs neliekas tik neticams.


Dashrath Manjhi (1934 - August 17, 2007) was born into a poor labourer family in Gahlour village near Gaya in Bihar, India. He is also known as Mountain Man. Dashrath Manjhi's wife, Falguni Devi, died due to lack of medical treatment because the nearest town with a doctor was 70 kilometres away from their village in Bihar, India.

Dashrath did not want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife, so he carved a 360-foot-long (110 m) through-cut, 25-foot-deep (7.6 m) in places and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) to form a road through a mountain in the Gehlour hills, working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. His feat reduced the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of the Gaya district from 55 km to 15 km, bringing him national acclaim.