Dangerous: Children walking to the school. The path is only 1 ft 4 inches wide at its narrowest It's up a Chinese cliff and takes five hours to reachbeijing: Children in a remote part of China face a hazardous walk to school —because it is halfway up a sheer cliff.The school in Gulu village, Sichuan province, lies halfway up a mountain and climbing up from the base takes five hours.The elementary school has only one teacher who has been there for 26 years. Villagers say going to school is very dangerous for the children, since the path is only 1ft 4ins wide at the narrowest point and has a sheer drop on one side.Walking along the narrow, zigzagging path also makes the children feel dizzy. The school has five concrete buildings and a playground with a basketball hoop made of two wooden poles and a broken blackboard.However, the children are allowed to only pat the balls, as if they throw them and they go over the edge of the cliff, it would take half a day to retrieve them.Shen Qijun (45), who teaches Chinese and Math, but says only two students have gone on to university because of the isolation. "The students have never seen computers, cars or even flushing toilets."
