Witness the "cliff village" children's hard way to school: a six-hour walk in the wilderness

Three people in Russia showed their toes when they reached the bottom of the mountain.

After a five-hour hike, 8-year-old Ji Juerzi was sweating like rain.

The children passed through a tunnel about 50 meters long.

The children finished their meal in 10 minutes in the Atutu group and moved on.

Chen Guji found water in a reservoir construction cave and fetched water for the children to drink in turn.

After walking for about four hours, six-year-old Jike Chengye took off his shoes and soaked his feet in the water as he passed a stream.

At the beginning of more than an hour's journey, it was almost all uphill, and the children were exhausted and lay on the hillside to have a rest.

At the edge of a spring, Chen Guji used cool spring water to cool his 6-year-old son Chen Muhei.

The 10-year-old Russian Qupo felt that his feet were too much to bear, so he made a crutch to help.

June 6, 2016 is the day when 15 children from Atuler Village, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province go to school at the foot of the mountain. The place, known as the "cliff village", is about 800 meters perpendicular to the ground, and 76 families live here. To the outside world, the village needs to climb 17 rattan ladders along the cliff.

As usual, parents and children set out at 06:30 in the morning and gathered at the cliff on the east side of the village before 7 o'clock. When he was ready to leave, the team leader, the Russian Changjiang River, received a phone call from the secretary of Zhi'ermo Township, Api Chi-ti: "it was informed that the children should not be allowed to climb the ladder, but had to detour down the mountain by another treaty of more than ten kilometers."

Landslides, rolling stones, tunnels, river valleys, abandoned bridges. For children, another way down the mountain means six hours of tiredness and hunger.

●, another way.

A detour doesn't mean it's absolutely safe.

Starting from the gathering place, the first place to go is the Atutu Group, which is about 3 kilometers apart. The children first passed through several sections of landslides ranging from ten to dozens of meters, and their parents reminded them to pass quickly at a larger interval to avoid encountering rolling stones. After that, all the way along the road with a slope of almost more than 30 degrees.

Because the distance to school was temporarily changed from the ladder road in the past two hours to another road that took a detour for six hours, the children did not eat when they came out in the morning. The village leader, Odi Changjiang, called Ji Kequ, the leader of the Attu team, who passed by, and asked him to prepare food.

At 08:30, after more than an hour of hard climbing, the children arrived at Jikequ Ri's home and ate the prepared potatoes and tofu soup in ten minutes.

The Atutu group also has more than 10 children studying at Leer Primary School, who usually go to school on a very steep cliff road near the village. In the morning, the group was also told not to take the cliff road, but to detour the same way down the hill.

Two groups of children come together, plus parents, there are about 40 people.

● is tired and hungry.

Next, enter Suzhu Village. It and Atutu are a large slope facing each other at the top of the mountain, all the way downhill. But the road is full of broken stones and dense ferns, sometimes uneven stones. The soles of most children's shoes are smooth and people slip from time to time. Fortunately, the road passes through the foot of the village, which is not dangerous.

Because of the dense vegetation, the children encountered snakes several times, and the snakes were scared away in panic and screams.

The children walked for about three hours and did not see a source of water along the road except for drinking water during the meal. After Suzhu Village entered a canyon, the children ran into a shed for hydropower construction, and the owner brought out the only small bucket of water for them to drink.

There was not enough water to drink. Under the guidance of the construction staff, Chen Guji, the parent, found a diversion hole for the reservoir under construction, which contained clear spring water.

After replenishing the water, the children moved on. 6-year-old Chen Muhei said to Chen Guji all the way, "Dad, I am tired and hungry, why do we walk so far and how far?"

Chen Guji said, "We're almost there. There's a car at the foot of the mountain."

Shoes worn out by ●

Enter the canyon, is a section of the "zigzag" more than 30 degrees downhill, the road has a lot of broken shale, relatively sharp, the children march very carefully.

The continuous downhill has great pressure on the toes of the children. Three shoes in the 13-year-old Russia already have a hole. When they set out, the two toes are exposed, and when they go down the hill, the damage is even more serious, and the toes are all exposed.

If you can't wear your shoes, you will attend classes barefoot during your 10-day stay at school. He said, because they are his only pair of shoes.

On the way, in a hard-hit area of the mudslide, a 50-meter-long "L"-shaped tunnel less than two meters high passed through the mudslide area, with a parent lighting with a mobile phone in front, and children holding hands from behind through one of the invisible turns.

Soon after it came out, it was a stream 3 meters wide. Some children crawled and plunged their heads into the water to relieve the heat, while others took off their shoes and soaked their tired feet.

The important thing is that children who have been short of water for a long time can have a good drink.

● "lost his legs."

At 12:00, the children passed through a river valley again. The current of the valley is relatively gentle. The water surface is about five or six meters wide. The only way to pass is through an abandoned bridge with iron cables and wooden planks. Young children can only be carried or carried by their parents.