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
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.
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.