Children in China climbs mountains to get to school

Children from Atuler village in Sichuan province, an isolated mountain village in south-west China have to take a life threatening 800m journey almost everyday to get to school.

Backpack-carrying pupils must take on an 800m rock face, scrambling down rickety ladders and clawing their way over bare rocks as they go to attend class.

South-west China authorities have promised to come to the aid of the children after photographs emerged showing the disturbing task the children were forced to make to get to school.
Head of the 72-member community, Api Jiti told media there had been insufficient room to build a school for local children on the mountaintop. 
He also said “seven or eight” villagers had plunged to their deaths after losing their grip during the climb while many more had been injured.

The region’s Communist party secretary said a steel staircase would be built to connect the deprived hamlet with the outside world while a permanent solution was found.