High altitude concrete pour. Workers build a spectator footpath around the vertical slopes of the Shifou Mountain in China.

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High altitude concrete pour. Workers build a
spectator footpath around the vertical slopes of
the Shifou Mountain in China.
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Thousands of meters up the slopes of the Shifou
Mountain in the Hunan Province, China, a team of
workers, operating with little safety equipment,
is building a footpath.
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Workers are building a spectator walkway on the
side of a mountain that, once finished, will
stretch a full 3km (9843 ft) and become China's
longest sightseeing footpath.
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48-year-old Yu Ji (shown above) is one of the
construction workers and he has been working on
high cliffs building such wooden-plank plank
walkways for more than ten years.  He states,
"young people don't want this job, as it
requires them to remain deep in the mountains for
months even years."
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Yu Ji takes charge of the most dangerous part of
the project drilling the holes into which pipes
will be placed horizontally to support the
footpath.
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Building a spectator walkway on the Shifou
Mountain is extremely difficult because the
cliffs stand vertical at 90 degrees, without
slopes or alcoves.
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Another section is now ready for the concrete
pour.