I bet there's no
Union Representative within 10,000 miles of this job - and certainly, there's no
Safety Control Officer, and definitely
NO Danger money paid. Perhaps this is a good example of why things cost so little to get done - in China?
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 3km (9843 ft) and be China's longest sightseeing footpath.
Building a plank road on
Shifou Mountain is difficult because the cliff stands vertical at 90 degrees, without any slope, or alcoves.
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 to set up pipes to support the footpath.
I only have one thing to say -
... ARE THEY KIDDING?
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