A poor laborer named Dashrath Manjhi, in Gehlaur, India, spent 22 years carving a road through a mountain with just a hammer and chisel after his wife died because the nearest hospital was separated from their village by an entire mountain, forcing people to travel nearly 70 km extra.

Dashrath Manjhi was a poor laborer from Gehlaur village in Bihar, India. His village was cut off from nearby towns by a massive rocky mountain ridge. To reach a hospital, school, or market, villagers had to travel nearly 70 km around the mountain.

In 1959, his wife, Falguni Devi, reportedly slipped while crossing the mountain path to bring him food and was seriously injured. Because medical help was so far away and difficult to reach, she died before getting proper treatment.

With no money, machinery, or engineering knowledge, he began carving a path through the mountain entirely by hand using only a hammer and chisel. People in nearby villages mocked him for years, believing he had gone insane.

He worked on it for 22 years.

By 1982, he had carved a road roughly 110 meters long, 9 meters wide, and 7.6 meters deep through solid rock. The road reduced the distance between several villages and the nearest town from around 70 km to about 15 km.

He later became known across India as “The Mountain Man.”

[wiki link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi)


what if new hospital opens at his village..

“carving a path through the mountain entirely by hand using only a hammer and chisel”

this is the dumbest shit ive ever read and entirely false. maybe it started with a hammer and chisel on day 1 but this was done with much more than a hammer and chisel. 22 years my ass. this is reddit india bot farm spam shit 😂

This was a great story 5 years ago. Still great, less impact.

Just think if he started carving that road years earlier, his wife may still be alive.