<story><title>The stilt-walking shepherds of France&apos;s grasslands, 1843-1937</title><url>https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stilt-shepherds-of-france-1843-1937/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>As a french kid, we knew about them, we even had tiny stilt races at yearly school fairs. But for some reason, they never gave us a third stabilizing stick ! Still very fun, but you gotta plan ahead quite a bit more.&lt;p&gt;A few years back I also saw people with spring loaded powerskips doing &amp;quot;powerhikes&amp;quot; in the forest, a sort of evolution :)</text></comment>
<story><title>The stilt-walking shepherds of France&apos;s grasslands, 1843-1937</title><url>https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stilt-shepherds-of-france-1843-1937/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wincy</author><text>This is super interesting. Curious how using stilts helps in a swamp land as my assumption would be that the stilts would get stuck. Obviously there was some practical advantage or they wouldn’t have done it, though. Also why did the swamps dry up? Was this because of weather changes or human intervention?</text></comment>