A glass cliffside elevator in a remote Chinese village has cut a perilous three-hour journey for local schoolchildren to just 30 minutes.
Children living in the remote Chinese village of Nizhuhe Village would have to hike cliffside trails through the Niujiu River Grand Canyon for over three hours to reach their boarding school, which sits at an elevation of approximately 1,650 metres.
A vertical drop of more than 500 metres separates the village at the bottom of the canyon from the school at the top with children, aged six to 15, having to scale a very steep and slippery path up.
This one-way journey has now been cut to just 30 minutes with the addition of the newly opened Fuyao Ladder, a 288-metre vertical lift attached to the canyon wall.
Operating alongside the 268-metre Qingyun Ladder elevator, which opened in 2022, the system takes school children up the cliffs before they board a cableway for the remaining 200 metres to reach their school.
The dual-elevator system helps to increase...