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The 3,500 ft glass walkway in the Yuntai Mountain Geological Park gave its visitors quite a shock when it began to crack on Monday, after a visitor dropped a stainless steel cup.
The walkway hasn’t been in operation for very long, having only opened on September 20th. It features custom-made glass panelling. Each glass panel is 2.7cm thick, and can support up to 800kg in weight, but the incident understandably caused quite a commotion amongst the people who were using the walkway at the time.
Lee Dong Hai, a tourist who was on the walkway when it began to crack, posted the following message on social networking site Weibo: “I was almost at the end and suddenly I heard a sound. My foot shook a little. I looked down and I saw that there was a crack in the floor.”
Hai continued: “Lots of people began screaming. I screamed ‘It’s cracked, it’s actually cracked!’ and I pushed the people in front of me aside so that we could run.”
3,500-Ft-High Glass Walkway Cracks Under Visitors’ Feet
A 3,540-foot-high (1,080m) glass walkway at Yuntai Mountain Geological Park in China cracked right under visitors' feet on Monday after a visitor dropped a stainless steel cup. This walkway opened on September 20th, and given that another glass bridge was recently opened in China over a mountain...
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