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Scariest drive ever - PHOTO

Scariest drive ever - PHOTO
29.05.2020 10:07

Welcome to the Cliff Corridor, a spectacular mountain road cut through a 110m high cliff face that serves as the only access link to a small Chinese Village.

The 1250m-long road which runs through mountains in Huixian County in central China’s Henan Province, was chiseled and hammered out 40 years ago by 14 villagers from Guoliang village.

The corridor is 5m high and 4m wide, and winds along the cliff at 110 meters high.

Almost 40 years ago, the only connection between Guoliang village and the outside world was a gruelling, almost vertical set of 720 mountain steps. 

The stairs were very dangerous because they were steep, narrow and had no handrails.

Then in 1972 village head Shen Mingxin decided something had to be done and led 13 villagers in a mammoth effort to chisel and hammer a real road to the outside. 

Without use of any machinery, they created the cliff corridor purely by hand. 

It took the 14 villagers 5 years to complete the corridor, which is wide enough to be driven along, during which time they used up more than 10 tons of drill rods and 4,000 hammers.

(dailymail.co.uk)

ANN.Az

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