Warning: May cause sweaty palms and heart palpitations
For those of us who already have a fear of heights (or a fear of falling from a great height) this is the kind of story that will give you nightmares. Tourists on the Yuntai Mountain walkway in China heard (and saw) one of the glass panels
shatter:
Witnesses said the 68-centimetre-wide glass pane shattered when they walked over it, and panic caused a mini stampede towards the end of the path.
Lee Dong Hai, who was on the walkway at the time, shared his moment of terror on the social media site Weibo.
“My foot shook a little. I looked down and I saw that there was a crack in the floor,” he wrote.
“A lot of people started to scream. I screamed out, ‘It cracked! It really cracked!’ and then I pushed the people in front of me so that we could run out of the way.”
Officials say a tourist dropped a steel mug on the glass, causing it to shatter. When it opened, officials said it was
extremely safe:
Despite its terror-inducing appearance, its creators say the bridge in the Shiniuzhai National Geological Park is perfectly safe.
Each of the glass panes is 24 millimeters thick and 25 times stronger than normal glass.
“The bridge we build will stand firm even if tourists are jumping on it,” a worker who constructed the bridge told the state-owned China News Service.
The walkway was completed in September 2015. It's a beautiful, if terrifying, tourist attraction. Get a better look at the massive glass walkway in this video from the
Wall Street Journal: