Anyone else hear about this glass bottom walkway stretching out over the Grand Canyon? I'm sure it's not really GLASS, it's been tested, reinforced etc. but would you dare to go out there...just in case. I'm a big chicken. My husband said he would...he thinks if it were to start cracking you could "hear" it and jump to safety....oooookaaaaay. I've been to the Grand Canyon and there's not much to jump to for safety and it's a loooooooong way down. He was on that trip too so I'm not sure what he is remembering. It has been set up to try to bring tourists to an impoverished Indian Reservation area. They are charging $25 per person to walk out. So, who'd be willing to step out?
I've been to the Grand Canyon too, they'd have to pay ME to go out there and it would take more than $25!! It is a LONG way down! :shock:
Promises, promises...I'm still chicken. Also, if you've ever been there you know that there is nothing obstructing the natural beauty. It just doesn't seem right...locals to the area feel that it is desecration. There is no other more breathtaking place I have ever been in this country. Go there and try to claim there is no God.
Agreed, I am miserably afraid of heights, not going to happen. However, no picture can ever do it justice, the Grand Canyon just has to be experienced. My DH nearly met his end, I kid you not. There was some sort of light pole, he grabbed it to use it to lean on so he could see farther out and it wasn't attached to anything........it was just barely stuck into the ground......he came very close to going over the edge! Scared the _ _ _ _ out of me! :shock:
:shock: Prone to erosion, the porous limestone cliff is the wild card that could determine how long the walkway holds, one of the project's architects told National Geographic News in December. (See "Grand Canyon's Glass Walkway to Open Next March" [December 15, 2006].) Hualapai elder Delores Honta, 70, gave the bridge "15 or 20 years," and sees it as something of a desecration. "It's very sacred ground to us," she said. Seems like a whole lot of money (30 million I think it said) to spend with no guarantee that the thing will last more than 15 to 20 years! Guess if you want to take a chance and hope the porous limestone doesn't give way, then you'd better go right away! As for me, I think not now or in 15 years either! No thank you! Why ruin God's handiwork with something like this to start with???
You have to wonder is they argued...."you test it"..."no, you go first"..."uh, uh not me"...."alright best 2 out 0f 3...rock, paper, scissors"........................
http://www.canadacool.com/COOLFACTS/ONTARIO/TorontoCNTower.html This has been done. I've been to the CN Tower in Toronto, CA which has a glass floor over 100 stories up. It's been there about 10 years now.
I would like to reintroduce this subject for those who might only read on the weekends. I've enjoyed the variations in response and would like to poll more. How many of you would be a chicken like me?
That looks neat, but you won't see me on it!!!! It would freak me out too much to walk across it. I have never been to the Grand Canyon, but if I go, think I will just admire it from one side to the other on solid ground!
I would do it, the wife was unhappy with me the last time we were there, I started making my own trails along the rims edge.
Okay!!! Went to site to check it out and I like someone else on forum am scared to death of heights. So NOPE NO CHANCE you'll catch me out there 70 feet out over nothing DON'T THINK SO!!!
Been there, done that (CNN Tower and Grand Canyon). If I were going to visit the Canyon again, I don't think I'm brave enough to walk on that thing. I think it's not that scary like riding on a roller coaster on Las Vegas' Stratosphere!!!!!!
