There
are people who say love can move mountains. This might not be
physically possible, but Dashrath Manjhi, also known as the ‘Mountain
Man’, came quite close. In one day of his life, his wife fell while
crossing a nearby hill and hurt herself seriously. She needed quick
medical assistance, but that wasn’t possible due to the hill that
isolated their small village from the next town. Tragically enough,
his wife died from the serious injuries before Dashrath could do
anything about it. It was the night when Dashrath Manjhi decided to
carve a small path through the mountain in order to give his village
easier access to medical assistance.
It
was an ambitious plan and he was heavily ridiculed for it. But after
working for 22 years with the greatest determination and willpower, a
path was carved into the hill. Even though he was initially mocked
and ridiculed for his mission to give his hometown easier access to
the nearby town, he finally succeeded. His life’s work helped to
reduce the distance between the two towns from 55 km to only 15 km,
so that never again such a thing would happen.
