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Roger Breedlove
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Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 21, 2017 - 08:51am PT
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From The Economist 15 April 2017
LAST year some images went viral on the internet in China. They showed children descending an 800-metre (2,600-foot) rock face on rickety ladders made of vines, wood and rusty metal. Their destination: school. The photographer was told by a local official that “seven or eight” people had died after losing their grip. Yet the children did this regularly—there is no school at the top of the mountain in Sichuan province where they live. The photographs conveyed two striking aspects of life in the Chinese countryside: a hunger for education so strong that children will risk their lives for it, and a callous lack of government attention to the needs of rural students.
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BigB
Trad climber
Red Rock
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Apr 21, 2017 - 08:56am PT
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better hope the chubby kids not above you
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Apr 21, 2017 - 09:28am PT
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...Cliff Notes!
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chill
climber
The fat part of the bell-curve
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Apr 21, 2017 - 10:11am PT
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Stoopid americans, so soft!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 21, 2017 - 10:30am PT
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The future is Chinese... if they strive for and cultivate knowledge... as they seem to do... I wish China and the children good luck!
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Apr 21, 2017 - 10:40am PT
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i love the Chinese.
Wish my kid had to do that every morning. Bet they sit attentively by the time they get that chair:)
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Apr 21, 2017 - 02:50pm PT
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Probably a lot fewer of those kids require Ritalin to pay attention to the teachers!
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 21, 2017 - 02:53pm PT
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If one of em falls off it becomes a "Chinese take-out"
:-)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 21, 2017 - 06:08pm PT
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Werner, I'm laughing here.
Didn't some guy named Wing invent a flying suit?
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 21, 2017 - 07:09pm PT
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Radishi, I'm not sure that reporting that the Chinese government's solution to kids climbing wooden cliff ladders to get home is to replace them with metal ladders would be seen as a fix.
That said, this photo comparison certainly seems to show an improvement.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Apr 21, 2017 - 11:47pm PT
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A total fable - what a load of crap.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Apr 22, 2017 - 06:57am PT
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No, it's real enough. The village is at the top; the children go up and down twice a month and live at the school while attending it.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 22, 2017 - 07:00am PT
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Higher education is not available? :0)
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Apr 22, 2017 - 07:11am PT
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Roger, that's a really moving video. The contrast between what these kids have to do (and are willing to do) and the "first world problems" some of our kids face is stark.
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