FW: Footpath in China!

Subject: Footpath in China!

Workers build a footpath around the

vertiginous slopes of Shifou Mountain

in China

Thousands of metres up the vertiginous slopes of Shifou Mountain in Hunan

Province, China, a team of workers, operating with hardly any safety measures,

are building a footpath

The workers are building a plank road on the side of the mountain that,

once it is finished, will stretch for 3km (9843 ft) and be China's longest

sightseeing footpath

 

48-year-old Yu Ji (above) is one of the workers and he has been

working on high cliffs building such plank roads for more than 10

years. He comments: "Young people don't want this job, as it requires

them to stay deep in the mountains for months or even years"

Yu Ji takes charge of the most dangerous part of the project -
drilling the holes to set up pipes to support the footpath

 

 

Building a plank road on Shifou Mountain is difficult because the
cliff stands vertical at 90 degrees, without any slope or alcoves

 

 

 

 

 

 

A finished section of the footpath

 

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