China’s “Brave Men’s” Bridge isn’t for the faint of either heart or head.
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Stretching nearly 1,000 feet long, the glass suspension bridge is named Haohan Qiao, translating in English to “Brave Men’s Bridge” and it’s not hard to see why. I’d be a bit nervous about walking on a bridge that was 590 feet in the air and had a glass bottom no matter where it was.
Hunan, China – Visitors gingerly walk across China’s first high-altitude glass suspension bridge that opened last week at the Shiniuzhai National Geological Park in central Hunan province.
Knowing that the glass panels probably came from the vendor with the lowest bid would make the trek even more terrifying.
According to Chinanews.com, each of the glass sheets used is 24 mm thick, 25 times stronger than ordinary glass, and extremely impact resistant.
It took a team of 11 engineers who carried out the work, adding new steel cables and struts for support before replacing the wooden slats with panes of glass.
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The Grand Canyon has a horseshoe-shaped glass-bottomed walkway that curves out into the void and back, and there are also attractions like The Ledge at Chicago’s Willis Tower – a small glass balcony built into the skyscraper’s observation floor.
