Laura Dekker the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe (pic courtesy: ) And yet, after she has accomplished what she set out to do, she would have removed a number of words from her dictionary: Fear, Impossible, Small, and Underage. If something was to happen to her, she would have died a solitary and lonely death and probably even her dead body won’t have been found. They don’t sail and they don’t know what boats are, and they are scared of them.” As soon as I read the news, the first thing that occurred to me was the mental set-up of someone as young as her, braving seas, known and unknown dangers alone, all alone for more than a year. Dekker later commented about the authorities in an interview, saying “ They thought it was dangerous. She started in Aug 2010, a year after she had planned, when a Dutch Child Care Council stopped her departure on grounds of shared parental custody between her about-to-be-divorced parents. At that age she had the greater part of her life ahead of her. On 21st of January this year, Laura Dekker, a sixteen year old Dutch/German/New Zealander became the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed. However, they have this inner compulsion to accomplish the near impossible. Then there are others who do tight rope walking between high-rise buildings defying death. There are men and women who do sky diving, suspended in the air as birds, opening their parachutes at the last minute. Sunbyanyname in his own Zindagi Nahin Milegi Dobara Here I was, a 58 years old retired Navy officer, as far removed from hills and rappelling as you can get, unable to suppress the impulse to do those things that the trio in the film Zindagi Nahin Milegi Dobara (You Can’t Get Your Life Again) had the urge to do literally dying (as the slang goes) to stay alive. At the speed at which he had rappelled, he would have reached the end very fast.A few weeks ago, during an adventure camp at Zenith Falls near Khapoli, Maharashtra, when I saw my younger friends rappelling down a difficult rocky hill, I too got the urge to do the same. Little did he know, however, that the rappelling rope was almost 100 feet short of reaching the ground. Shailendra was a professional stuntsman who had performed this feat several times. Yesterday was a sad day indeed Shailendra Singh Bisht, a 26 years old mountaineer crashed to death whilst rappelling down the 14 storey Great Adventure Mall, which had just been inaugurated in Greater NOIDA by the union minister Subodh Kant Sahay.
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