Dashrath Manjhi was a poor labourer in the Gehlaur village, India who had the idea to create a path through the Gehlour hills so that his village could have easier access to medical attention. He spent 22 years making turning this idea into a reality by carving a path through a 360 ft long, 30 ft wide and 25 ft high hillock using only a hammer and chisel.

The human landscapes of rice cultivation in terraces that follow the natural contours of the escarpments like contour plowing are just amazing. It shows that people’s work together with nature can give some very beautiful results.

Such terraces are a classical feature of the island of Bali, the Banaue Rice Terraces in Benguet, Philippines, and the rice terraced mountains in China.