World's most scariest school run Chinese children tackle 800 metre cliff.
To attend class, backpack-carrying pupils from Atuler village in Sichuan province must take on an 800-metre rock face, scrambling down rickety ladders and clawing their way over bare rocks as they go
For more than a dozen children in a small, remote village in southwest China, the mountainous route home from school is long - and extremely steep.
Every two weeks, when the students, ages 6 to 15, return from boarding school, they climb a chain of 17 bamboo ladders, secured to a sheer cliff face and leading 2,625 feet up, according to reports.
Locals say the ladders - which lead through treacherous terrain in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province - have been there nearly as long as the village.
"We replace a ladder with a new one when we find one of them is rotten," Chen Jigu, who lives in the Atuler village, told China Daily.
A village in China’s mountainous west where schoolchildren must climb an 800-meter (2,625-foot)-high bamboo ladder secured to a sheer cliff face may get a set of steel stairs to improve safety.
The concerns arose after striking pictures were taken of the children climbing the ladder in Sichuan province’s Zhaojue county, in a scene that underscores the vast gap in development between China’s prosperous, modern east and parts of the remote inland west that remain mired in poverty.
The ladder is the only access to the village of Atuleer to which the children return every two weeks from the school at which they board. The 72 families who live there are members of the Yi minority group and subsist mainly by farming potatoes, walnuts and chili peppers.
ust to get home from school, they climb 800 metres toward the sky -- on a ladder made of bamboo and secured to a sheer cliff face.
After pictures surfaced of the challenging trek faced by schoolchildren in a poor corner of China's mountainous west, their village may be getting some assistance by way of a safer, more modern piece of infrastructure: a solid set of steel stairs.
The hardship faced by residents in the village of Atuleer in Sichuan province underscores the vast gap in development between China's prosperous, modern east and parts of the remote inland west that remain mired in poverty.
