VILLAGE • LIFT • GORGE
If you suffer from vertigo, the Yushan village, located in the province of Hubei, the best deleted from the list of potential places to visit. Despite the beautiful views, the only link the village with the outside world - a cable car at an altitude of 400 meters above the gorge.
1. China Yushan village situated at an altitude of 400 meters above the ground, and you can get to it only one way - by using two cables stretching between two tops of cliffs. On these ropes anchored steel cab, which is used to transport people and goods from the village and the village.
2. A pair of thick rope strung between two high rocks, and steel cage - that's a whole set of simple devices for transporting people and goods.
3. Yushan lives just over 200 people. Before the creation of the cable car, built in 1997, its residents had to spend a few days to get to the nearest settlement.
4. The images are breathtaking, not everyone would be able to ride on this truck. No insurance and high technology: the travelers is to rely only on the fortress ropes.
5. All these years, repairs and technical support of the cable is engaged, only one man - Zhang Qiang. He monitors the status of the cable car, cable car and the engine and lubricates the ropes and funicular leads to action.
6. Weekly lubrication of cables - a very dangerous job. Zhang must ride on the truck all the way and apply grease to all cables.
7. Says Zhang: "I started working here as soon as the road was built. Nobody wanted to go here. My father was an elder, and he had to find someone for this dangerous work. In the end, after unsuccessful attempts to persuade someone, he appointed me to this position. "
8. Zhang adds: "At first my father and younger brother helped me, but then do something else brother, and his father's health had deteriorated, so now this road takes me himself."
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