These kids make a terrifying trip to school every morning - suspended in a bamboo basket while pulling themselves across a raging river.

The youngsters can normally wade through the shallow water but during the rainy season from June until October it turns into a raging torrent of rapids in Davao Oriental, the Philippines.

Butay Integrated School is the only establishment in the area and their village is on the wrong side of the river - meaning they have to cross twice a day.

Rather than get wet, the innovative teenagers fastened a huge length of bamboo between two trees and built a bamboo cage.

They then climb inside with their backpacks and haul themselves across. Once they reach the other side, others waiting can pull the cage back with a second bamboo line which is fastened to it.

Footage taken earlier this week captures their perilous school run.

Local teenager Noel Gayoso said: ''When it's raining and the river's flooded this is the only way that we can cross. It's a little bit scary, but it's the best passage for us to reach school.''