Behold: the longest glass bottomed bridge in the world, extending for over half a kilometre 200 metres above the Lianjiang River in China’s Huangchuan Three Gorges Scenic Area. Designed by Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University, the span comprises three layers of 4.5cm-thick glass lined with steel and suspended from cables.

Capable of supporting 500 people at a time, it’s a lot more stable than the previous record holder.

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15 thoughts on “Do Look Down

  1. Bertie Theodore Alphege Blenkinsop

    When I get down from cleaning the bedroom windows my knees are black and blue from gripping the ladder… so it’s a NO from me.

    1. Janet, dreams of big guns

      massive no from me, I can’t even stand those stairs with the gaps between each step…

  2. Junkface

    It looks amazing! Although I would say its a real test as to whether or not you have Vertigo. Imagine being on that during a Thunderstorm!

  3. Mr .T

    While I’d love to know how they build those kind of suspension bridges, I’m not curious enough to go googling such things

  4. scottser

    you’d have a cracking view of the carnage and flooding caused by the three gorges dam, in fairness.
    also, a great bunch of lads.

  5. millie madonna

    When in Canada in my more youthful days, I visited the CN Tower in Toronto and stood on the glass floor. It gave me an incredibly unpleasant sense of vertigo that I have no desire to ever repeat. Just looking at the pictures gave me a touch of anxiety.

    1. Cian

      If you go into SeaLife in London there is a glass floor (wall to wall, perhaps 5m long) on the way in – where you are walking over one of the huge tanks full of sharks and other fish.

      One time I was there and someone was having a “Nope, moment” and were bordering on hysterical – they didn’t want to cross over the tank (but wanted to go in)!

  6. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

    I’ve gotten much more scared with age. I’ve become more anxious on planes ‘n’ all. It’s most annoying.

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