Perilous balancing act for China’s first female ultra-high voltage power transmission workers

Amid ice and snow, several female workers climb up a pylone to do maintenance work on a 1000kV ultra-high voltage power line in Inner Mongolia's Xilingol League.



Nicknamed “steel roses” by locals, they are the first female workers to do ultra-high voltage electricity transmission work in China. The job is not just dangerous due to the heights at which they work: the power line also transmits over 1000kV of electricity, the highest level in the world.

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