Is he walking on the rope? Curious photo of the Bavarian mountain railway shocked users

A man made a curious observation on Wednesday on a webcam photo of the Blombergbahn.

You can see a person who is supposed to be walking on the train rope.

Wackersberg

- A man is walking on the rope of the Blombergbahn.

What sounds completely absurd when you first listened to it, actually looked like this on Wednesday afternoon, August 11th, on the cable car's webcam.

A reader of the

Tölzer Kurier

discovered the supposed walker and took a screenshot of the webcam image, which can be seen on the website of the mountain railway and is updated at regular intervals.

On the photo you can see the Blombergbahn, which is photographed by the webcam from above into the valley.

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Strange observation at the Blombergbahn.

© Webcam Blombergbahn / Scharf

Dangerous tightrope act on the Blombergbahn: webcam shows a strange picture

At the moment of the shot, you can see some empty chairlifts going up and down the cable car.

In addition, a person can be recognized who - it seems - is walking on the rope of the chairlifts going up.

What looks like a really daring tightrope act is only photographed at the right moment - and thus a really amusing optical illusion, as a spokesman for the Blombergbahn also announced at the request of the

Tölzer Kurier

.

Curious photo from Blomberg: tightrope act just optical illusion

The explanation for the photo is actually quite simple.

As a picture from Thursday, August 12th shows: As soon as there are people on the Blomberg below the railway, they are displayed in enormous size due to a distortion of the picture.

The visual perspective is distorted by the orientation of the camera.

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Blombergbahn on Thursday.

© Webcam Blombergbahn

The person who was below the track on Wednesday afternoon was simply standing at a very favorable angle - so that the webcam could capture them as a “tightrope walker”. It is more likely, however, that this is also one of the countless paragliders who take off every day from below the runway. Either way, the picture does not fail to achieve its amazing effect. Hobby tightrope walkers should not, however, feel encouraged to imitate the supposedly visible balancing act. At most Lukas Irmler from Freising, who holds the world record in slacklining, would possibly dare to do that. In 2018 he was already balancing at a dizzying height on the Zugspitze.

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