How to protect the 8 seconds of safe passage of high-speed rail. The reporter will take you to experience it on the eaves and walls
On the Beipan River deep in the mountains of Guizhou, the largest high-speed rail railway bridge in my country stretches across here. This is a must-pass place for the Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway, and more than 100 trains pass through the bridge every day. It only takes 8 seconds to cross the high-speed rail bridge, and passengers can hardly feel it. But behind these 8 seconds, under the tracks invisible to passengers, a railway inspection team with an average age of only 28 years old has practiced the skill of flying eaves and walking on the walls, protecting the safety of the bridge day and night. Before the Spring Festival, the reporter recorded their "extreme challenge" over Beipan River.
Above your head is a train speeding past, and under your feet is the Beipan River. The workers' work posts are on the bridge more than 300 meters high from the river. On the eve of the Spring Festival, the reporter caught a full physical examination of the Beipanjiang Super Bridge.
To reach the work post, three extreme sports are required: first, you have to climb over a section of a cliff to reach the bridge pier, then across the entire bridge arch, and you have to climb two tallest vertical bridge piers. Between the streams and weeds, the road to climbing the mountain begins.
CCTV reporter Jiang Shan: We just climbed a mountain before we came to this place. We can clearly see the bridge piers. The distance between the bridge deck and the river surface below is about 300 meters, which is equivalent to the height of more than 100 floors.
From the cliff wall to the bridge pier, another section of steep slope along the river is needed, and you can only rely on a safety rope. The cliff wall is almost vertical, and looking down, it is the river water. It took more than half an hour to go up the mountain and then down the mountain.
