This man spent 22 years carvings a Road through a mountain by Himself with only a Hammer and chisels After Dashrath Manjhi's pregnant wife fell off the steep cliffside path that led to their village, he decided to make a better one — and spent 22 years hand-carving a trail through a mountain all by himself. Using just a hammer and a chisel, Manjhi cut a 30-foot-wide and 25-foot-high path through the mountains, which shortened his village's distance to the next town by 25 miles. Read the remarkable story of Northern India's "Mountain Man" by Dashrath Manjhi (14 January 1934 – 17 August 2007 also known as Mountain Man, was an Indian laborer from Gehlaur village, near Gaya in the state of Bihar. When his wife died in 1959 due to injury caused by falling from a mountain and due to the same mountain blocking easy access to a nearby hospital in time, he decided to carve a 110 meter-long (360 ft), and 9.1 meter-wide (30 ft) wide path and 7.7 meter-deep (25 ft) pat...
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