Share Yang Feiyue descends and hangs off the steep cliff face, patiently picking up rubbish thrown off the side by tourists. AFP China’s ‘spidermen’ clear litter abseiling down cliff Thu, 10 December 2020 Dangling 400m over a void, suspended only by a cord, Yang Feiyue is not your average litter-picker. The 48-year-old’s job is to abseil down cliffs on central China’s Tianmen mountain – an area famed for its natural beauty but plagued by plastic and other waste. “Am I afraid?” says Yang as he steps over a guardrail. “No, I’m used to it.” Local media call Yang and his team “the Spidermen”, after the skyscraper-scaling superhero, and it’s easy to see why.