A steel staircase located on a cliff in Zhaojue County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province has won the Guinness World Record as the steel staircase with the highest elevation difference in the world, local authorities said on Tuesday. .
With a difference in level of 370 meters, the structure was built in 2017 to replace a vine staircase that was the only access to the village of Atulie’er, also known as the “cliff village”.
The cliffs that surround the village have an altitude difference of around 800 meters, isolating residents from the outside world for decades.
The cliff-top village is one example among the hundreds of thousands of villages in China that have overcome poverty. In 2020, after eight years of efforts, almost 100 million rural residents in the country who lived below the poverty line were freed from this condition.
Source: https://www.chinahoje.net/escadaria-no-topo-de-penhasco-na-china-estabelece-recorde-mundial-do-guinness/
