Huge log descends mountain slope

Huge log descends mountain slope

A huge fir log went down 100 meters along a mountain slope with young men braving to flock around the log in a log festival in Suwa Shrine in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on April 10. Some 55,000 spectators watched the event.

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