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An 18-year-old steps over the railing on the glass skywalk at Tianmen Mountain in Hunan and off a 400-meter drop, caught on the park’s own security camera. He’d just failed the gaokao, China’s one-shot college entrance exam, and plenty of people get a bad score and move on with their lives. He didn’t.
Video
The clip is a phone filming a security monitor, replaying the park’s own CCTV with a timestamp reading 06-13-2018 ticking along the top. The angle looks down on a viewing platform on the glass skywalk, a metal guardrail up front and the valley lake behind it. A young man is sitting up on the rail early on, legs hanging over the drop, just taking in the view, then he climbs back down and walks the empty platform for a stretch. He comes back to the same spot at the rail, and the footage catches him going over it and out into open air above the valley before the clip cuts out.
That railing is there for photo ops, not for this.
What the Thread Said
Most of the thread couldn’t square a single test score with a fall like that. One reader admitted he’s only ever passed an exam on the first try and still couldn’t picture feeling that cornered, and a few others pointed to how brutal the pressure around China’s exam system actually gets on a kid, parents and teachers both. The outlier skipped the sympathy and just wanted to know what a 400-meter drop does to a body that a rooftop jump doesn’t.
China’s Exam Pressure and a Shifting Suicide Toll
The student in this clip died after failing his exams, in a country where that kind of academic pressure runs in the background of a lot of these stories.
- 10.88 to 5.25 per 100,000: China’s overall suicide rate roughly halved from 2010 to 2021.
- 2 to 8 per million: child suicide rate (ages 0-14) tripled over that same stretch.
- 19.6% yearly rise in suicide deaths for ages 15-24 since 2017, reversing a 6.8% yearly drop before that.
- Around 500 school kids a year reportedly die by suicide, linked to exam competition and pushy parenting.
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