A bunch of workers are building China's longest sightseeing plank road on a cliff that stands vertical at 90 degrees. The only safety measure they have are ropes
A bunch of workers are building China's longest sightseeing plank road on a cliff that stands vertical at 90 degrees. The only safety measure they have are ropes
Could these be some of the bravest workers in the world? Each day they toil on the side of a steep cliff thousands of metres high, working without safety measures on an area no wider than a dinner table.
Meet China's mountain plank road builders. Most of them are from the China's eastern Jiangxi Province, and are currently working on Shifou Mountain in Hunan Province.
Men working on the construction of the plank road on Shifou Mountain. Yu Ji, 48, drilling holes into the mountain and setting up pipes that will support the plank road
They are building a plank road on the side of the mountain that, once it is finished, will stretch for 3 km (9843 feet) and be China's longest sightseeing plank road.
Building a plank road on Shifou Mountain is difficult because the cliff stands vertical at 90 degrees, without any slope or alcoves.
Without any safety measures, the men work to set up the plank road, which is only 1m (3.2 feet) wide.
Forty eight year-old Yu Ji is one of the workers and he has been working on high cliffs, building such plank roads for more than 10 years.
"Young people don't want this job as it requires them to stay deep in the mountains for months or even years," he says.
Yu Ji takes charge of the most dangerous part of the project drilling holes to set up pipes to support the plank road.
"I don't feel this job is different from any other job. It's not as dangerous as people think. You just wear the ropes and then everything is okay."
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