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Children wearing their school backpacks climb on a cliff using a bamboo ladder on their way home from school in Zhaojue county, southwest China's Sichuan province. A village in China's mountainous west where schoolchildren must climb a 2,625-foot-high bamboo ladder secured to a sheer cliff face may get a set of steel stairs to improve it's safety.(Photo: AP)
Fifteen children in southwest China might have the most terrifying commute to school.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Children, between ages 6 and 15, scale a cliff about 2,625<span style="color: Red;">*</span>feet high multiple times a month between their home and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a school in Atuler village. The trip takes about 90-minutes.
Images from their home trek, taken by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>award-winning Beijing News photographer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Chen Jie, went viral on Chinese media after appearing on the front page of the English-language China Daily and other newspapers on Thursday,
AP reported. Now, authorities in the area said they are looking for ways to help the villagers, including building a steel staircase,
according to The Guardian.
Chen, who spent three days with the villagers and made the journey with them three times, told The Guardian<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“if you have any kind of accident, you will fall straight into the abyss.”
Chen hopes his photographs will bring about change, and help for these villagers.
Zhang Li, a reporter from China’s state broadcaster CCTV who was sent with the children on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>assignment, cried as she made the trek with the children.
Api Jiti, the head of the children's farming community,
told Beijing News<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"seven or eight" people have died during the climb.
Because of the deadly route, the children cannot travel it daily. Instead, they board at the school and return home every two weeks.
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