Terrifying walkway built 500m above ground on a Chinese mountain is a vertigo-sufferer's worst nightmare

Builders are putting the finishing touches to the walkway through the Wuling Mountain in south-west China, which doesn’t look like one for the faint-hearted

Don't look down: Tourists walking on the spectacular new walkway in China. (CEN)
Don't look down: Tourists walking on the spectacular new walkway in China. (CEN)


This spectacular walkway gives tourists access to a remote mountain range - if you can stomach the 500m drop below.

Builders are putting the finishing touches to the walkway through the Wuling Mountain in south-west China, which doesn’t look like one for the faint-hearted.

Despite the vertigo-inducing project not actually being open, tourists have still sneaked past barriers  to test it out anyway.

Officials have refused to give confirmed details about the walkway, but local media in China’s Chongqing Municipality say it is around 800 metres long and its highest point some 500 metres above the ground.

Vertigo-inducing: It's around 500m down from the terrifying walkway. (CEN)
Vertigo-inducing: It's around 500m down from the terrifying walkway. (CEN)


Long way to the top: The walkway is around 800m long. (CEN)
Long way to the top: The walkway is around 800m long. (CEN)


Tread carefully: The ascending walkway up through the Chinese mountain. (CEN)
Tread carefully: The ascending walkway up through the Chinese mountain. (CEN)


The long and winding road: Tourist try out the walkway for size. (CEN)
The long and winding road: Tourist try out the walkway for size. (CEN)


The mountain range where the walkway is opening is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for having more than 3,000 quartzite sandstone pillars and peaks across most of the site, along with many ravines and gorges between them with streams, pools and waterfalls.

Not all were accessible, which is why the local tourism board came up with the idea for the walkway. If it proves a success as they suspect, they are planning other walkways.

Mount Fanjing which is part of the mountain range where the walkway was built is home to the rare Guizhou golden monkey (Phinopithecus roxellanae brelichi) and is also regarded as a sacred Buddhist mountain.