Children climb a steel ladder leading to the cliff village in Sichuan province on Saturday, November 19, 2016. (Source: The Beijing News) Village children who live on a cliff face can now climb up and ...

People of Yi ethnic group climb a steel ladder built along the cliff in Atulie'er Village, Zhaojue County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Nov. 24, 2019.

After years of treacherous journeys down a mountain to get to school, children in a village in China are finally getting a ladder to make their school runs less risky. In May, heartbreaking pictures ...

A Spring Festival gala was recently held at Xuanya Village, or Cliffside Village, a once poor village in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Featuring ...

Children climb a vine ladder on their way home, May 14, 2016. The children study at a school at the foot of the hill and go home twice a month. [Photo/VCG] The mountaintop village in Southwest China ...

A hotel accommodates tourists in Atule'er village in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province, in July. [Photo by AHKE JIUSHE/FOR CHINA DAILY] A series of rattan ladders that used to be ...

Trash cans sit below the vaulted ceilings, catching drips of water that have peeled plaster and turned white walls several shades of brown. The arched stained-glass window trim shows signs of rot. Sea ...

Village children who live on a cliff face can now climb up and down new series of steel ladders, dubbed "ladders of heaven", to their homes, the Beijing News reports. Children climb a steel ladder ...