A video showing people scaling long ladders, as well as extremely high cliffs with some people carrying young children on their backs, is widely shared on social media claiming that these are the visuals of a village in Arunachal Pradesh.
The video is shared on Facebook with a caption: “हमें अपने यहाँ बस, ट्रेन सुविधा की शिकायत रहती है. ये अरुणाचल का एक छोटा सा गांव है. यहां जिंदगी की रोज की चुनौती भी देख लें” (English translation: We keep complaining about bus and train facilities at our place. This is a small village in Arunachal. See the daily challenge of life here)
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be MISLEADING.
Extracting keyframes from the viral video, we identified a tweet carrying the same viral video, dated April 24, 2020, with a caption in the Chinese language (English translation: “This video from Daliang mountain was shared by an Italian. The foreigner asked me if it was true. After watching it, I said it was true. The foreigner asked why China donated so much money to foreign countries, and I couldn’t answer.”)
A Facebook post from 2020 also carries the viral video identifying the location as the Sichuan region of China’s Atulierer cliff town. Others who posted the same video in 2020 pointed out that it demonstrated the hardships faced by the residents of this isolated Chinese community.
Another video, dated July 5, 2019, on the Facebook page of China Xinhua News — a state-run media organisation in China, has also included a handful of shots from the viral video. “The people who live in this Sichuan, China, ‘cliff village’ have been mounting the cliff for generations. The 800-metre climb has been significantly simpler in recent years thanks to a steel ladder,” reads the caption for the video. The long stairway that could be seen in the viral video was followed by more clips of people scaling a cliff with only their hands in a different film that China Plus Culture posted in 2020. The Atulie’er village in China’s Sichuan province’s Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture was the place referenced in this post as well.
A CNN news article from October 26, 2016, also describes a steel ladder that links a Chinese mountain community perched on a precipice with the outside world. As per the article, the hamlet began erecting the ladder in August 2016 with one million yuan ($147,928) expenditure. The choice was made when the government-run Beijing News released terrifying images of about 15 schoolchildren, some as young as six, attempting to climb a shaky vine ladder to get to their school in the valley below, making the isolated community well-known online.
Thus, it is clear that a video from a remote Chinese village is falsely shared as that from Arunachal Pradesh.
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