‘You won’t want to look down': China’s terrifying 600 foot high, glass-bottom bridge
Six-hundred feet above Shiniuzhai National Geological Park, China’s
new glass-bottomed suspension bridge creaked and swayed in the wind as
tourists made their way across, very slowly, some clinging to the
guardrail or to one another, others crawling on all fours.
It’s a
little scary, which is why perhaps it’s named Haohan Qiao, which
translates to “Brave Men’s Bridge.” Architecture blogger Matt Hickman
had another name for
it, the “bridge I’d rather not cross when I come to it ….the biggest,
baddest and most immobilizing glass-bottomed suspension bridge in all of
China”
The structure, which opened to the public last week
in China’s Hunan province, is 980 feet long suspended between two sheer
cliffs. “Walkers see clear, stomach-churning views” of the ground below,
reports the
South China Morning Post. “If you’re brave enough to cross it, you won’t want to look down.”