thedailywhat:

Kids These Days of the Day: You know those stories of bygone days your grandpappy used to tell you about how he walked five miles in the snow, uphill, both ways, just to get some education?

Well, the 80 school-age kids who live in the remote village of Pili in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are living those tall tales.

Except instead of 5 miles, it’s 125 miles. And instead of through the snow, it’s through four freezing rivers. And instead of uphill, it’s upmountain.

Each semester, the children are taken on the treacherous trek to the their school, where they remain until the end of the term, and are then led all the way back.

The entire dangerous journey takes two days to complete.

[telegraph / dpaf.]

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    That mountain pass is the most dangerous part. They should at least make a bridge or add some good holding attachments...
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    Holy fuck! This stuff is making my heart race. Just blow a tunnel...that fucking mountain....
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