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Show China Has Suicide Mountain A cruel trick of nature causes many suicides on sacred Mt. Omei, according to the Chinese government govern-ment in discussing the 11,000-foot peak which sits on a ca'pet of clouds. At the top, pilgrims stand on a plateau, look down and sometimes some-times see on clouds below the "image "im-age of Buddha." Believing he has come in person to welcome them tf the after-life, they jump off the cliff. Actually, the "image of Buddha" Bud-dha" is their own shadows, cast on the clouds below by the sun. Nature Na-ture has other tricks that lead humans hu-mans astray. Best known is the mirage, the reflection of distant objects ob-jects by rebounding light Mirages occur most often in deserts, but back in 1868 Gaston Tissandier reported re-ported one from a balloon above Calais, France. He saw ships, jailing jail-ing in the sky," reflected from tne English channel. |