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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309526/Thats-to-class-The-terrifying-climb-Chinese-schoolchildren-young-forced-scale-sheer-cliffs-to-school.html

That's one to get to the top of the class… The terrifying climb of Chinese
schoolchildren as young as five forced to scale sheer cliffs to get to
school

   - Mountain-top village of only 100 residents is cut off from the outside
   world, apart from ladders leading to valley below
   - Brave schoolchildren use the wooden ladders with no safety precautions
   to get to school every day
   - Five-year-old Liu Dan explained: 'It's quite high but I try not to
   look down'

By OLIVIA WILLIAMS<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Olivia+Williams>

*PUBLISHED:* 19:13 GMT, 15 April 2013 | *UPDATED:* 12:56 GMT, 16 April 2013

These schoolchildren in southern China are so keen to get to school that
they make the perilous journey on narrow wooden ladders every day, with no
safety precautions.

Their village in the remote Badagong mountains in Sangzhi county is
surrounded by sheer drops on every side, making the school run a daily
struggle.

The only way out of Zhang Jiawan village, unless the children have time for
a four-hour cross country detour, is via a series of rickety-looking
ladders leading down to the valley below.

*Scroll down for video*
[image: Children climb the ladders to get to school in Hunan province,
China]

Terrifying: Children clamber down these unsecured ladders to get to school
in Hunan province, China

[image: This little girl balances her three bags leaving her only one hand
to scale the mountain to get to school]

Precarious: This little girl balances her three bags leaving her only one
hand to scale the mountain to get to school

[image: Staff at the school face a difficult commute to work on the
enormous wooden ladders]

Uphill struggle: Staff at the school face a difficult commute to work on
the enormous wooden ladders

Their anxious parents have no choice but to let them use the ladders if
they want to get an education.

So when youngsters like five-year-old Liu Dan start school at the nearest
town, the first thing they have to learn is how to climb.

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'In centuries past these mountains were a fortress for the villagers. The
land is good and the farms thrive but it is hard to get in and out,' said
one local.

Liu admitted: 'It's quite high but I try not to look down.'
Chinese children climb ladders to get home from school
[image: Staff prepare to climb up behind the boy on the narrow ladders]

Steady as they go: Staff hold the narrow ladders steady for the next person
to gingerly come down after them

[image: A schoolgirl holds the ladder for others to come up safely behind
her]

Team work: A schoolgirl tries to help by holding it steady while she
prepares to go next

[image: 5-year-old Yu Xinxin, who climbs the ladders to school every day,
before she sets off on her long morning journey]

At home: 5-year-old Yu Xinxin, who climbs the ladders to school every day,
reading before she sets off on her long morning journey

'My parents showed me how to do it safely and now I don't think too much
about how high it is,' she added.

Villagers have asked local officials to supply a road down to the valley so
that these children do not have to risk their lilves.

However, the road over the difficult terrain would cost nearly £10 million
so residents are not getting their hopes up that it will happen any time
soon.

'There are fewer than 100 people living there. It would be cheaper to buy
them all helicopters,' said one.
[image: Yu Xinxin's morning routine is just like any other schoolgirl's
until she leaves home to make the dangerous journey up the mountain]

Preparations: Yu Xinxin's morning routine is just like any other
schoolgirl's until she leaves home to make the dangerous journey down the
mountain

[image: The village at the bottom of the steep mountains where the children
set off from every day]

Isolated: The village in the steep mountains where the children set off
from every day to go to the valley below

[image: Yu Qiyun, who uses the ladders every day, at home with his family]

Daunting prospect: Yu Qiyun, who uses the ladders every day, at home with
his family
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