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High altitude concrete pour. Workers build a spectator footpath High altitude concrete pour. Workers build a spectator footpath around the vertical slopes of the Shifou Mountain in China.around the vertical slopes of the Shifou Mountain in China.
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Thousands of meters up the slopes of the Shifou Mountain in the Hunan Province, China, a team of workers, operating with little safety equipment, is building a footpath.
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Workers are building a spectator walkway on the side of a mountain that, once finished, will stretch a full 3km (9843 ft) and become China's longest sightseeing footpath.
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48-year-old Yu Ji (shown above) is one of the construction workers and he has been working on high cliffs building such wooden-plank plank walkways for more than ten years. He states, "young people don't want this job, as it requires them to remain deep in the mountains for months; even years."
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Yu Ji takes charge of the most dangerous part of the project – drilling the holes into which pipes will be placed horizontally to support the footpath.
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Building a spectator walkway on the Shifou Mountain is extremely difficult because the cliffs stand vertical at 90 degrees, without slopes or alcoves.
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Another section is now ready for the concrete pour.