To attend class, backpack-carrying pupils from Atuler village in Sichuan province must take on an 800m rock face, scrambling down rickety ladders and clawing their way over bare rocks as they go.
Images of their terrifying and potentially deadly 90-minute descent went viral on the Chinese internet this week after they were published in a Beijing newspaper. [...]
But the perils were evident. Api Jiti told the Beijing News that “seven or eight” villagers had plunged to their deaths after losing their grip during the climb while many more had been injured.
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