When applying for a job as a litter picker , a 'head for heights ' is not usually required . But for these abseiling cleaners collecting rubbish thrown down the cliff of a Chinese mountain , it 's a necessity . The 'spider men ' abseil from the side of the 4,500ft cliff edge of Tianmen Mountain , risking their lives to pick up litter thrown away by visitors , according to The People 's Daily Online . A cleaner abseils down the side of Tianmen Mountain to collect rubbish thrown over the cliff edge by tourists . Easy does it : The painstaking process is necessary because tourists chuck food packets , empty bottles and cans down the cliffside , defacing its natural beauty . A worker throws a sack tied on a long rope onto the cliff before abseiling to clean the side of the mountain , located in the central Chinese province of Hunan . After finishing cleaning a section , a litter picker pulls himself back over the boundary fence onto the path . The beauty spot is popular with tourists looking to ride the cable cars and visit the temple at the summit . Despite repeated calls by the Chinese Tourism Administration urging tourists not to throw their rubbish over the cliff edge , they continue to chuck empty food packets , bottles and cans into the mountain , as well as spitting and defacing the mountain . The beauty spot , located in Zhangjiajie in central China 's Hunan province , is popular with tourists looking to ride the cable car route , reportedly the longest in the world . There is also a large temple on the summit , dating back to the Tang Dynasty which ruled the region for two periods between 610-690 and 705-907 . A similar cleaning operation is in place takes place on Mount Emei in Sichuan province , China , where cleaner Peng Wencai has spent 14 years descending down the mountain to collect trash thrown away by tourists . The little pickers risk their lives to clean away the food packets and drinks containers thrown away by visitors . A sack of rubbish is pulled up onto safe ground after being collected by a litter picker . Chinese authorities are urging visitors to stop throwing their litter over the cliff edge . A worker pours the litter , including plastic bags and food containers , into a rubbish bin on Tianmen Mountain . The rope holding the litter picker stay taut as he gathers the rubbish , which is then brought back up to the public pathway before being removed from the mountainside .
' Spider rope ' rope pickers use ropes to abseil down Tianmen corpses . Tourists have thrown plastic bags , bottles and plastic bags off edge . Chinese authorities urging visitors to stop visiting the beauty spot .