{"id":173,"date":"2005-05-04T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/archive\/2005\/05\/climbing-news-of-the-bizarre\/"},"modified":"2005-05-04T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T15:33:39","slug":"climbing-news-of-the-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/climbing-news-of-the-bizarre\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing news of the bizarre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was just too strange not to post. <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2002260970_buns05.html\">Climbing a mountain of Chinese buns<\/a>&#8230; I just wish I could find a picture of this online.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Think of it as rock climbing, except on a mountain of Chinese buns.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong is relaunching the annual bun-snatching tradition on suburban Cheung Chau island after a 26-year break. Officials called off the ritual of climbing up a tower of buns after one tower collapsed in 1978, injuring 100 people.<\/p>\n<p>The official 46-foot bun-climbing tower, 10-feet in diameter, is buttressed by a concrete foundation designed by government architects and supported by a steel frame.<\/p>\n<p>Bun-snatching competitors are trained by the Hong Kong Mountaineering Union. Padding is installed at the bottom of the bun tower. The result: modern rock climbing meets Hong Kong tradition. On Sunday, bun snatchers with ropes attached to their bodies scrambled up the scaffolding \u00e2?? free of buns for now \u00e2?? in a preliminary competition. The 12 who reached the top of the tower fastest qualified for the final.<\/p>\n<p>In the final May 16 \u00e2?? which coincides with Cheung Chau&#8217;s &#8220;bun festival,&#8221; featuring a parade of traditional floats \u00e2?? competitors must grab as many buns as possible from a designated area of the tower within a given time. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was just too strange not to post. Climbing a mountain of Chinese buns&#8230; I just wish I could find a picture of this online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jRR-2N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}