BEIJING – A video of a tourist guide terrified by the sight of a bridge’s glass bottom cracking has gone viral recently in East Taihang Mountains, in Handan city, north China’s Hebei Province.
As he walks, the bridge appears to splinter and the guide falls to his knees in shock as the splinters continue to grow.
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The glass skywalk hangs 1,180 meters above a valley and stretches 266 meters in length. Just for fun, shattering glass is added as a special effect to give the already-terrifying experience extra zing.
The East Taihang administration has since released an official apology, explaining that the splintering glass was a bid to be ‘provocative’. They say the walkway has had shattered fragments of glass placed between the layers so that when you walk over them, the glass sounds and looks as if it’s breaking.
The management also assured that workers check the glass panels daily to ensure the safety of visitors.
And although they’re ‘very sorry that people got frightened’, they’re not going to replace the bridge’s tiles because they want people to come and experience it for themselves.
