Mysuru: The ambitious plan of Tourism Department to construct a Zip Line atop Chamundi Hill has been dumped by the Forest Department as the project threatens the ecosystem, wildlife and the sanctity of the Hill. The Department wanted to promote adventure tourism as part of the already existing religious tourism atop the Hill and had proposed the idea of Zip Line.
A Zip Line is made up of a pulley appended to a stainless-steel cable extended between fixed points of different elevations. It is a cable that starts at a higher point than it ends. Using the natural decline of the slope, a person can glide down the wire on a pulley system that minimises friction to help the rider accelerate.
