The world’s most terrifying school run is about to get a little less hair raising. In the mountains of southwest China’s Sichuan province, a group of children must descend an 800-meter (half mile) ...

For as long as firefighters have been trying to reach the sky, there’s been a debate over which material is best for ladders to help them fight fire from above. Wood was the first material, followed ...

OCALA, Fla. – It was bound to happen sooner or later. E-ONE, known for aluminum aerial ladders, has made a steel 105-foot straight stick, four-section aerial and the new product is ready for market. E ...

A father protects his son as they climb the steel ladder to the cliff village in Sichuan province, Nov 19, 2016. [Photo/IC] Children living in a mountaintop village in Southwest China who were using ...

A mountain village on a cliff in southwestern China has been building a huge steel ladder to connect it to the outside world more securely, using more than 1,500 steel pipes, mainland media reports.

Scary experience: The journey up the terrifying cliff face takes around two hours and the students are accompanied by three adults A steel ladder has been erected in the village of Atule'er in Sichuan ...

Nicknamed "cliff village", Atuler is located on an 800 metre-high plateau in Sichuan, China. It is home to the Yi people, an ethnic minority group that can also be found in Vietnam and Thailand. Until ...

Every household needs a step ladder. If you don’t own one, you probably stand on a chair regularly to grab hard-to-reach items in your home. This is inefficient as well as unsafe. Step ladders are ...