The She-Wall Crawler: Ma Jei scrambles 70 feet up a virtually sheer castle wall in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, eastern China - just to dodge the £2.50 admission fee. Thrifty Jei - who uses no rope or safety equipment - said she'd climbed the walls of Zhonghua Castle since childhood and had never once paid to get in. But her stunt encouraged other visitors to follow her example - with two falling and breaking their legs and three others having to be rescued by police. "She ran up the wall like a goat and made it look easy. But when people tried it for themselves they saw it wasn't quite as simple as they thought," said one tourist.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
China's Spiderwoman
2011-10-08T07:04:00-07:00
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