China's terrifying new viewing platform
Anyone with a fear of heights should look away now. China's latest glass-bottomed attraction has opened just outside Beijing and tourists are flocking to take a walk on the see-through surface.
Claiming three world records, the walkway is supposedly the world's largest glass platform with a circular surface area of 415 square metres. Protruding 33m over the cliff edge in Jingdong Stone Forest Gorge, it is also the longest in the world. The third record goes for the first time aviation titanium has been in the construction of a 'building'.
Last year a skywalk was opened on the 76th floor of the Yunding Building in Liuzhou, Guangxi. Months earlier, Chinese authorities were forced to close an attraction after a glass pane on a new transparent walkway shattered suddenly.
To see the skywalk, watch the video above. It certainly seems like a daunting attraction – do you think you could ever see yourself trying it?
First appeared on Stuff.co.nz.
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