Never complain about your commute again.

Recent footage of Chinese schoolchildren scaling a treacherous, 2,600-foot cliff to get to school is shocking social media users worldwide.

The dangers facing the dozen or so schoolchildren -- all of whom are between the ages of 6 and 15, and hail from a remote, impoverished village in Sichuan -- first gained widespread attention after Beijing News , a state-owned local newspaper, featured the photos earlier this week.

Children can be seen climbing a rickety ladder with no harness up an almost vertical mountain. Most of them are bare-handed, and none of them appear to be wearing any safety gear. The journey takes about 90 minutes uphill and an hour downhill, Beijing News noted.

"Every single climb felt like rubbing shoulders with death," said photographer Chen Jie, who accompanied the children on the commute and captured the harrowing images for Beijing News. About seven or eight people have died as a result of this journey, the village chief told the newspaper.

Watch a video of the terrifying journey above.