He is no Marvel comic super hero that lives in the imagination of man, but a 22-year-old youth who can scale a 300-foot-high wall, dangle upside down glued to walls and jut out at 90 degrees -- all without the spider man paraphernalia!
Meet Jyothiraju, the Indian spider man who is in the 'must-to-be-watched' tourist attraction in this little town of Chitradurga in Karnataka.
Far from being the image of the Lee-Ditko created western character, this tanned-sinewed youth, sans the costumed blue and red webbed apparel and neatly tucked hair, is a rather rustic version of Spider man, but one with skills close to the fiction hero.
The school dropout, who once contemplated suicide, today displays rare bravado as he scales up vertical walls with his bare hands, dangles his body upside down with just a hand rested against a wall all 300 ft up in the air without a harness or the superman glue or sticky spiderwebs to take care.
He demonstrates his inimitable ability by scaling the walls in a flash and walking up vertically in a jiffy. His manoeuvres, as he hangs himself like a bat on a scaffolding, leaves many gaping. He completes the task in a manner that demonstrates a skill, by large unknown.
A former construction labourer, who was adept at scaffolding climbing, Raju says that he learnt the art by watching monkeys climb.
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