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Mar 10AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Let’s imagine you have a fear of heights and are a bit of a control freak. Can you come up with a more terrifying scenario than this?
More than 1,300ft above the roaring Rio Negro in Colombia, nine-year-old Daisy Mora prepares to throw herself over the abyss.
Attaching herself to an old and rusted pulley system she drops over the edge before plummeting at 40mph along a zip wire to the opposite bank half a mile away–a vertigo-inducing journey she has to take every day to get to school.
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[F]or children like Daisy and her five-year-old brother Jamid, it is how they get to school.Jamid is too young to safely ride the wire on his own, so she has to carry him with her in a jute bag, controlling their speed with a wooden fork.
The Agitator is responsible for my nightmares.