Cable bridge in China used for travelling purpose of School Student

Cable bridge in China: Though this is very old news (2007) but I can't help myself grabbing this opportunity to show the situation. In order to get to school, every day 500 students in a village of Yunnan, southwestern China have to fasten themselves to the cable with a metal carabiner and a rope and slide across the 200 metre wide canyon.

A bridge is to be built in this Chinese village where children are forced to cross a raging torrent on a steel cable to get to school. Nearly 500 children, from Maji village in Fugong town, Yunnan province, cross the most dangerous stretch of the Nujiang River each day.

They fasten themselves to the cable with a metal carabiner and a rope and slide across the 200 metre wide canyon.

The youngest pupil, A Qia, 4, has to go over by herself each day. The villagers say that usually four-year-old children are taken by their parents, and begin to go by themselves from the age of five. A Pu, five, still remember his feeling when he was stuck in the middle of the cable for nearly 20 minutes once.