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March 20, 2007
Hualapai Tribe Set to Open Grand Canyon Skywalk
Have you ever asked yourself, wouldn't it be cool to stand a piece of glass over the edge of cliff to see 4000 feet down? If the answer is yes, here's your chance after March 28th!
HUALAPAI INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. — Visitors who have marveled at the Grand Canyon's vistas will now have a dizzying new option: a glass-bottom observation deck allowing them to gaze into the chasm beneath their feet.The Skywalk, officially being unveiled Tuesday, is being touted as an engineering marvel. The glass-and-steel horseshoe extends 70 feet beyond the canyon's edge with no visible supports above or below.
For $25 plus other fees, up to 120 people at a time will be able to look down to the canyon floor 4,000 feet below, a vantage point more than twice as high as the world's tallest buildings.
Hualapai Indians, whose reservation is about 90 miles west of Grand Canyon National Park, allowed a Las Vegas developer to build the $30 million Skywalk in hopes of creating a unique attraction on their side of the canyon.
I just don't know about this one. I'm betting it will be an attraction for sure. The whole standing on glass looking down nearly 3/4's of a mile just doesn't feel like my cup of tea.
Read more over at The Huffington Post.
Posted by Jamison at March 20, 2007 1:53 PM
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And they aren't going to allow cameras or cell phones. They are afraid people would be dropping them and constantly chipping the glass floor, therefore weakening it. I'd really want a picture if I had the guts to walk or crawl out on that thing!
Posted by: dar at March 20, 2007 4:54 PM
ugh. I'm getting a panic attack just imagining it! I'll pass.
Posted by: Moni at March 20, 2007 5:27 PM
I'm with Darlene on this one. Only -- I'm pretty sure my mode of transport would be crawling. It does make the mind reel that they're worried about the floor becoming chipped . . . you mean the thing isn't made out of some type of amazing un-breakable, un-chippable substance???
Posted by: katherine at March 21, 2007 7:03 PM
Just an update on the story, the first official big name guest out on it was Buzz Aldrin. Read more here.
Posted by: Jamison at March 22, 2007 3:22 PM
I finally had a chance to take a look at the platform and you couldn't pay me to go out on that thing! Yikes!
Posted by: Dianne at March 22, 2007 4:08 PM