China has 3.7 million square miles of land to explore . But more and more young Chinese travellers are opting to see their country from the sky.
The newest of these not-for-the-faint-of-heart structures is called Tianti ("Sky Ladder" in Chinese). It clocks in at 168 meters and stretches between two cliffs at a height of 1524m according to Chinese state media. READ MORE: The truth about a holiday in the Northern Territory The attraction is located on Mount Qixing in Zhangjiajie Nature Park, in southwestern China's Hunan province, an area famous for its complex terrain and diverse landforms.
This particular climbing trail is via ferrata-style, built on the rock wall of a mountain using steel handrails, footrests, tethers and cables to enable people to climb the steep rock walls. "The feet in this video are mine, and that kid is my son," said He Qian, whose Tianti climbing video went viral on Douyin, TikTok's sister app in China. He's video, in which she showed her feet on the ladder and then slowly panned over to her nine-year-old son sitting on the ladder calmly, gathered hundreds of likes.
"I was not nervous, my son was," He told CNN, "but he was all right soon afterward." He Qian runs a B&B nearby, where she also helps people book tickets for the new attraction. "Those who like to challenge themselves like doing this," she added.
" I've helped dozens of them get their tickets, they were all scared at the beginning." The sky-high attraction in Zhangjiajie receives an average .
