A video of people scaling steep cliffs is from China and not Arunachal Pradesh

This video is from the Atulie’er village in China’s Sichuan province. A safer steel ladder later replaced the villagers’ ladder in the video.

A video of people moving up extremely steep cliffs, some on foot and others scaling up and down a long ladder, some with toddlers on their backs is making rounds on social media with a caption “We keep complain about our bus, train facility.This is a small village in Arunachal Pradesh. See the daily challenges of life here”

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Fact Check-

We began our investigation by running a reverse image search on Google with the key frames of the viral video, which led us to the result that the same video was uploaded on a YouTube channel on May 10, 2020 with a caption “Chinese Mountain People 3 min video lace up your boots”.

In our subsequent search, we discovered the same video posted on Facebook by China Xinhua News, a Chinese state-controlled media outlet on 5 July, 2019 with the caption “Steel ladder makes 800-meter climb easier”. The description reads, “Residents of this “cliff village” in Sichuan, China has been scaling the cliff for generations. In recent years, a steel ladder makes the 800-meter climb much easier”.

This viral video was posted on the South China Morning Post YouTube channel on May 18, 2020, with the description “The remote Atulie’er Village, which is known as ‘Cliff Village’, is in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. 

Villagers need to climb down an 800-metre-high cliff to go to school or even go to hospital to give birth. Recently 84 households in ‘Cliff Village’ relocated to their new apartments”.

 A CNN report from October 2016 says about a steel ladder connecting the cliff-top mountain village of China with the outside world. The village reportedly started constructing the ladder in August 2016, with an investment of 1 million yuan ($147,928). According to the reports of May 2020, The Chinese government resettled the Atulie’er villagers who lived up a 2,624-foot cliff into town apartments near the town centre of Zhaojue County in the province of Sichuan. Bidding farewell to their cliff-top houses, they relocated for better access to schools, medical care, and other basic services.

Taking all this evidence we can clearly understand the viral video is from a village in China not from Arunachal Pradesh.

Conclusion-

Fact Crescendo found the claim made along with the viral video is false. The video shows a village in China not Arunachal Pradesh.