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'World's scariest school run' gets facelift with 2,500-step steel ladder on 800m cliff

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A ladder of steel made up of 2,556 steps has been built along an 800-metre-high cliff in China's southern Sichuan Province.

Residents, including schoolchildren, of Atuleer, a so-called "cliff village" with just 72 households, used to have to step on precarious-looking wooden ladders to climb up Daliang Mountain's rock face and exit the village, leading it to be described as the "world's scariest school run" in western media.

In 2016, a tourism group invested 0.63 billion yuan (£74 billion) to built the steel ladder for the "cliff village" in an attempt to make it into a tourist attraction.

Drone footage shows several people climbing up the near-vertical mountain using the steel ladder.

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