Kicker: Cliffside convenience

NICK EICHER, HOST: In China’s Hunan province, in a nature park, you’d find many natural wonders: like waterfalls and mountains.

But also a quite unusual man-made wonder: the world’s most-inconvenient convenience store, as it’s called.

There’s a 21-square-foot shop bolted to the side of a mountain about 400 feet up, selling bottles of water and snacks to the passing clientele, exclusively rock climbers.

Judging by the look of the place, you’d have to be a rock climber yourself to work there.

But I don’t buy the “most-inconvenient” label.

If you’re hanging by a rope and your fingertips with a convenience store hanging right there with you, this is the very definition of convenient.

I’d think the markup, though, would have to be — wait for it — pretty steep.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Even in communist China?

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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