Friday, May 27, 2016

Chinese schoolkids climb a 2,625-foot cliffside ladder to get home. Now, they’ll have stairs.

Chinese schoolkids climb a 2,625-foot cliffside ladder to get home. Now, they'll have stairs.

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 some 2,625 […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/05/27/chinese-schoolkids-climb-a-2625-foot-cliffside-ladder-to-get-home-now-theyll-have-stairs/

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