A man from Lazimi village pulls himself back to the ground after zipping across the Nu River in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. Chinese mountain villagers, cut off from shops and churches by a raging river, use a zipline to cross its violent rapids and jagged rocks. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A view of Lazimi village seen from across the river in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A villager carries an electric fan while zipping across the Nu River in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A family is ready to zip their way back to Lazimi village after shopping at the Saturday market in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. Most villagers, who are members of the Lisu ethnic group and are deeply religious, also zip across every Sunday for mass services at nearby churches. The nearest bridge over the river is 12 miles away from the mountainside village. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Villagers watch others cross the river with a zipline in Lazimi village in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Villagers are seen crossing the river with a zipline in Lazimi village in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. The villagers have applied their own ingenuity in building the ziplines, inclined downhill and relying mostly on gravity, to cross the Nu, which snakes from Tibet along China's border with Myanmar through the southwestern province of Yunnan. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





An ethnic Lisu woman from Lazimi village carries a basket in her hands as she zips across the Nu River in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Villagers are seen crossing the river with a zipline in Lazimi village in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Laundry is seen at a villager's home in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Village children play with a zipline cable in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. People estimate about 20 to 30 hamlets in the region still rely on the ziplines as their primary means across the river, although the lines are not always reliable, since they become slippery when it rains and too dangerous to use. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A woman gets ready to cross a zipline over the Nu River in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. Several zipline villages remaining in Fugong county, an eight-hour drive from Lazimi, are swiftly being connected to the outside world with bridges built by road construction projects. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A Lisu man leaves his village on a zipline in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Cha Huilan, a 40-year old Lisu woman, washes her face in her home in Lazimi village in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Cha Huilan, a 40-year old Lisu woman, walks down village road in Lazimi on her way to the Saturday market in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Cha Huilan, a 40-year old Lisu woman, carries her daughter in her home in Lazimi village in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Cha Huilan, a 40-year old Lisu woman, and her daughter leave Lazimi village with a zipline across the Nu River in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 24, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)