Posted on 10/07/2015 12:29:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Walking on a glass walkway suspended 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) up a mountain is supposed to be terrifying — but not this terrifying.
Just two weeks after it opened to a nervous public, a walkway in China’s central Henan province was evacuated after cracks appeared.
Reports describe visitors running and screaming in panic as they saw the damage on the U-shaped path at Yuntaishan (Yuntai Mountain) Scenic Park.
“Just witnessed a historic moment — Yuntaishan’s glass walkway is broken,” wrote one user on Weibo (China’s micro-blogging site.)
(Excerpt) Read more at kfor.com ...
Short skirts?
Glass is more flexible than most folks think.
Beyond that ... if you can get past ogling the girl in Post #1, you’ll notice that the bridge is a steel structure with glass panels for a deck. I wouldn’t want to be on it in a major earthquake, but the glass panels themselves would be the least concern.
You win the thread.
Sounds like the idiots who jump up and down in the elevator to scare their girlfriends...my wife and I were in the same elevator on our way up the Empire State Building. Not funny.
“Confucius say girl who fly airplane upside down, have crack up...”
Note only that, it’s a “hairy crack up!”
Yeah... like falling 500 meters would not be as bad.
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“Yeah... like falling 500 meters would not be as bad. “
Maybe a hundred feet in the air at best (though of course still a deadly fall).
The Walkway is a 260 meter Cliffside passage suspended over a canyon at 1080 meters above sea level.
So... the bottom is 260 meters away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY5alvXix0I (after undergoing recent repairs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcczjFRcVcU (before repairs (!))
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