New Footpath on Shifou Mountain

 

 

DO NOT LOOK AT THIS IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF HEIGHTS!!

 

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  Something to keep in mind for your next holiday.  

 

 

 

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Workers build a footpath around the vertiginous slopes of Shifou Mountain 湖南 in China
The wooden path, being built on Shifou Mountain in Hunan Province, will be just two miles long when it's complete. It will be walked by tourists and other visitors to the Chinese province - provided they have a good head for heights. The track will be the longest cliff face track in China and will give tourists truly vertiginous views of the land below.
 

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 3-km (almost 10,000-feet) and will become
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 in the mountain side to set up the pipes which
will serve to support the footpath. 


 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A finished section of the footpath above.