Villagers in southwest China hang on for dear life to cross rivers on ziplines

When the residents of Chinese mountain village Lazimi want to go across the river to the market, they put on a harness and clip themselves onto a cable slung across a raging river. Slanted downhill and mostly relying on gravity, they literally zip across the water to the other side. The Nu river, which literally means “angry“ river in Chinese, snakes from Tibet along the Myanmar border through Yunnan province and in many places, the rapids over the jagged rocks are too violent for boats to navigate. The ro