Children climb a vine ladder on their way home, May 14, 2016. The children study at a school at the foot of the hill and go home twice a month. [Photo/VCG] The mountaintop village in Southwest China ...

Children climb a steel ladder leading to the cliff village in Sichuan province on Saturday, November 19, 2016. (Source: The Beijing News) Village children who live on a cliff face can now climb up and ...

CHENGDU, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yong's ancestors moved to a precipitous cliff at an altitude of 1,600 meters in west China from south more than 300 years ago. Named Shengli (Victory), the cliff ...

A hotel accommodates tourists in Atule'er village in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province, in July. [Photo by AHKE JIUSHE/FOR CHINA DAILY] A series of rattan ladders that used to be ...

People of Yi ethnic group climb a steel ladder built along the cliff in Atulie'er Village, Zhaojue County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Nov. 24, 2019.

A Spring Festival gala was recently held at Xuanya Village, or Cliffside Village, a once poor village in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Featuring ...

Village children who live on a cliff face can now climb up and down new series of steel ladders, dubbed "ladders of heaven", to their homes, the Beijing News reports. Children climb a steel ladder ...

A series of rattan ladders that used to be the only way up and down for 500 villagers living atop a cliff have become a tourist attraction in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province. A ...

Over recent years, Zheng Wangchun, head of Gulu Village in Sichuan Province, and his hundreds of fellow villagers have witnessed and benefited from China’s rural revitalization strategy. He is sharing ...

The world’s most terrifying school run is about to get a little less hair raising. In the mountains of southwest China’s Sichuan province, a group of children must descend an 800-meter (half mile) ...

Towering above a wooded valley, this dramatic village clings to the rock like something out of a storybook. It’s called Rocamadour, and it’s one of France’s most iconic pilgrimage sites. The ...

SEA CLIFF, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Someone broke into a village hall on Long Island and wrote a message across a conference room wall, officials said. When Sea Cliff Mayor Bruce Kennedy walked into work ...