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Dashrath Manjhi

 When his wife grew ill in the early 1960s, Indian farmhand DashrathManjhi took her from their home in Gelaur to the hospital in theneighoring town of Wa!irganj" #nfortunately, this meant a journey of19 kilometers, as a hillo$k of solid ro$k lay etween the two %illages"

 When he returned to Gelaur, Manjhi resol%ed to impro%e matters" Working alone with a hammer and $hisel, he spent && years $utting apassage through a solid mass of ro$k '60 feet long, &( feet high, and '0feet wide" When he finished in the 19)0s, he had redu$ed the route from19 kilometers to si* and the tra%el time from si* hours to one"

 When Dasrath died in &00+, the Indian state of ihar ga%e him a statefuneral" -e is rememered today in Gelaur as .the man who mo%ed amountain"/

rospe$tor William $hmidt was o%erjoyed when he stru$k gold on2alifornia3s 2opper Mountain, ut he fa$ed one prolem4 -e was on thenorth side of the mountain, and the road to the smelter was on the south

side"o he dug a tunnel"

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-e started in 1906, at age '(, working with a pi$k, a 5pound hammer, ahand drill, and dynamite" When he finally roke into daylight on themountain3s south side, it was 19') and he was 66 years old" -e hadsinglehandedly dug a tunnel 1,)+& feet long, displa$ing &,600 $ui$

 yards of granite" 7las, su$$ess had to e its own reward" While $hmidt had een digging,rail and road links had een uilt around the mountain 8 so the tunnel

 was unne$essary"