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Yokosuka, Dec 10 (EFE).- The Mariana Trench, the deepest point on planet Earth at 11 kilometers (nearly 7 miles) below sea level, is an inhospitable place and almost inaccessible to humanity. But it's not inaccessible to the garbage left by humans.Over three decades, researchers from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) have identified, photographed and recorded some of the waste generated by human activity that has ended in the deepest folds of the Pacific Ocean.In Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Trench at over 10,000 meters deep, these scientists found remnants of plastic bags and a wooden plank.Closer to the surface, but still several kilometers below sea level, they discovered objects such as slippers, a shoe, a sports backpack, several car wheels, a toy fire engine and a mannequin's head, which a marine organism had made its home. (Camera: ANTONIO HERMOSÍN). SOUND BITES: SANAE CHIBA, THE LEAD RESEARCHER OF THE STUDY "HUMAN FOOTPRINT IN THE ABYSS: 30-YEAR RECORDS OF DEEP-SEA PLASTIC DEBRIS" (IN ENGLISH).
Skaters glided gracefully across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, taking in the breathtaking winter scenery while skating across huge sheets of ice dozens of feet thick. The frozen Siberian lake offers a perfectly clear view of the lake bottom as the frozen ice is as clear as glass in many places. Ice skating from one end to the other takes about 2 weeks! How would you like to skate on this lake of glass?
This glass-bottomed pool, which is attached to the ninth story of a hotel in China, offers scenic views of the terrifying drop below and is believed to be the highest altitude pool with a glass bottom in the world. Brave bathers can take a dip in the frightening see-through pool at the Wanfu hot spring hotel in Zhangjiajie. The 2 foot deep and six and a half feet wide dipping pool hangs off the side of the nine-story steel structure of the hotel and overlooks the verdant Hunan hills.
If you're afraid of heights, you should skip this video right now. Chinese builders unveiled at 262-foot-long glass skywalk at a theme park in Chongqing district of Wansheng, and it looks absolutely terrifying. The glass-bottomed protrusion extends over a scenic river valley and tourists can look down to see a dizzying drop of about a thousand feet, right below them. Tens of thousands of thrill-seeking tourists waited for their chance to feel the stomach churning sensation for the opening of the V-shaped glass walkway on April 1, just a few days before Ching Ming Festival holiday, and it was definitely no joke. The skywalk is so huge that the managing company has applied to the Guinness World record, hoping to win the title of the longest glass skywalk in the world.
The howling of dogs, the bite of frosty winter, and the butterflies floating in your stomach moments before the race begins. Welcome to BaikalRace2017, the annual 96-mile-long endurance dog sled race which takes place on the frozen surface of the deepest freshwater lake in the world. Teams of racers and their dogs kicked off the first leg of the race on Saturday and rode long and hard throughout the weekend to vie for the crown. The annual Baikal dog-sledding endurance competition has drawn scores of adventurous tourists to frosty but beautiful Siberia. This year's sled race is set to run over several days, with the dogs sledding through Lake Baikal, the Baikal National Park and the Baikal Nature Biosphere Reserve. The annual BaikalRace is not the longest official dog sledding race in Russia, not by a longshot. That title goes to the Beringia race, an annual long distance dog sledding endurance race around the Kamchatka Peninsula running for about 590 miles in total, or about 6 times as long as Baikal Race. Longer still is the world famous Iditarod Race in Alaska, which runs for about 1,000 miles on a trail from Anchorage to Nome, making it the longest dog sled race in the world.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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