In 1960, a poor laborer in rural India picked up a hammer and chisel and began attacking a 300-foot mountain. Everyone called him mad. His own village mocked him. Government officials ignored his pleas for help. But Dashrath Manjhi had made a promise to his dying wife—and for twenty-two years, he kept it. Alone.

This is the story of how one man's grief transformed into the most stubborn act of defiance against geography, poverty, and indifference the world has ever seen. How a pathway carved through solid rock became a monument to love, rage, and the terrifying power of refusing to accept that nothing can be done. And how the man they called crazy became the man who proved that mountains—literal mountains—can be moved by human hands.

Discover the true story of Dashrath Manjhi, the Mountain Man of India, whose impossible achievement challenges everything we believe about individual action, infrastructure justice, and what one person can accomplish when the system fails them. Warning: This episode contains descriptions of death, poverty, and injury.

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