  We demonstrate that strings near the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole,
when viewed by a stationary observer at infinity, probe a string Carroll
geometry, where the effective lightspeed is given by the distance from the
horizon. We expand the Polyakov action in powers of this lightspeed to find a
theory of Carrollian strings. We show that the string shrinks to a point to
leading order near the horizon, which follows a null geodesic in a
two-dimensional Rindler space. At the next-to-leading order the string
oscillates in the embedding fields associated with the near-horizon two-sphere.
