Climbing the bamboo pole can be a team effort; cooperation doesn’t hurt anyone… the strongest at the base, acting as a foundation for the more agile and light to climb up and up and up… to reach the prizes! But it’s oh-so-slippery-n-gritty… and it’s a long way down… perhaps only for the brave!

Nearly there… just… a… little… further… to… the… top! Will he slip-slide all the way down? Or will he make it?

He did! He made it!