World's Largest Rope Swing

World's Largest Rope Swing

by Anna Mattox

            I know that every single one of you have swung on a swing before when you were a kid. Every chance there was, you would get someone to come and push you really high! Well these kids took swinging really high to a new level. Have you ever seen the rocks out in the deserts that are really tall but skinny, and the will have holes in the middle? People rock climb those. They will strap all kinds of gear to them and climb to the top of them. Then tie a single rope to a rock or tree that is sturdy enough to hold them, and run and jump. As they are free falling, the rope will tighten and they will begin to swing back and forth through the open hole in the rocks. This doesn’t take some idiot just wanting to go have fun. These people are so smart, they need to know how to calculate how long the rope needs to be so they wont go flying into another side of a rock. They need to know how to jump just right and have such perfect technique to swing right. One day I hope that I can try this. It looks so fun but so scary!