Today.Az » Weird / Interesting » 'Spider-Woman' scales 70ft wall to escape admission fee at castle
08 October 2011 [13:31] - Today.Az
A Chinese woman, who has been dubbed Spider-Woman, astonished tourists at Zhonghua Castle by scaling a 70ft wall to avoid the admission fee.
Nimble Ma Jei had no rope or safety equipment when she attempted the
feat to dodge the cost of going into the castle – the equivalent of
£2.50.However, she revealed that this was not the first
time she had scaled the wall, telling tourists that she had grown up in
the area and climbed the walls since childhood and had never once paid
to get in. Some tourists who saw her amazing feat tried to follow her example, but sadly they were not as successful as Ms Jei. Two fell from the wall breaking their legs and three others had to be rescued by police. One
eyewitness said: '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.' Ms
Jei's antics in China do not quite match those of French skyscraper
climber Alain Robert, who recently scaled new heights as he clambered up
the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The 48-year-old, who is known for
climbing some of the world's tallest and best-known buildings without
ropes or other equipment, also climbed Burj Khalifa this year, the
tallest building in the world.
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