TravelAwaits
May.11.2021
If you enjoy walking across glass-bottomed pedestrian bridges stretching high above rocky canyons, you may want to stop reading here.
Last week, a man was stranded on a glass-bottomed pedestrian bridge 330 feet above a canyon in the Piyan Mountain Cultural Tourism Scenic Area outside the city of Longjing, China, after sudden gale-force winds damaged the bridge. Fortunately, the man was rescued and taken to a hospital, China’s state-controlled news outlet Xinhua reports.
A Harrowing Experience
The incident began at 12:45 p.m. last Friday, when record-making high winds of up to 93 miles per hour blew out several glass panels, trapping the tourist high above the ravine, according to a statement posted on the Weibo account of local authorities.