Reinforcing a cliff face - GIF

[Altair]

Reinforcing a cliff face in Chongquing, China.




Previously:

Treacherous Chinese mountain road - GIF
Road collapses after jackhammering - GIF
Estonian ice road and resonance wave destruction - video and photo
Jeep drives down a steep ravine - GIF
Excavator suspended from vertical hillside - photo

[McDesign]

That's just nuts - incredible labor and danger and cost; what for?

Forrest in Atlanta

[Karl_H]

That's just nuts - incredible labor and danger and cost; what for?

To guarantee high ground when the dams collapse?

[Duke_of_URL]

The landslides from such cliffs are contributing to the flooding and eventual failure of the Three Gorges Dam.
This effort is a fools' errand, since nothing will prevent hydrologic pressure from underground plus the earthquakes from forcing landslides.

[Elizabeth Greene]

That's just nuts - incredible labor and danger and cost; what for?

Landslides can cause massive waves, like tidal waves but amplified to be much worse by the valleys downstream from the dam. I believe they are trying to prevent that. There is a fictional movie about this type of failure on Netflix called The Wave.

[Ralphxyz]

That has to be the most scaffolding on one job site I have seen.

[jdurand]

3 Gorges reservoir is 375 miles long and about 600 feet deep at the dam. How long would that even take to drain all that water?

[lowracer]

Why not demolish it and drive it away. long term solution(although expensive), but no future maintenance or risk

[nova_robotics]

That has to be the most scaffolding on one job site I have seen.

Yup. Same. To the point where I'm not entirely convinced it isn't CGI.

[Dragonhand]

The mind boggles, It would take half the day just to get to the top. They must be living and sleeping on the job.