China welcomes journalist to take heavy hammer to its longest glass scaffold to demonstrate it's sheltered
The Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon connect, the world's most elevated and longest glass extension, is set to open in Hunan, China, one month from now and its administrators need to guarantee you it's sheltered.
This takes after occurrences like the Yuntaishan glass span in focal China's Henan area breaking last September.
To mollify fears, Zhangjiajie's creators welcomed BBC correspondent Dan Simmons to do a wellbeing test.
The test includes Simmons remaining on top of a lifted glass board — the same boards that make up the extension — which was set on the scaffold and pummeling a heavy hammer on it.
At Simmons' first swing, the top layer of the board demonstrates obvious splits. He was then urged to take a couple of more swings at the glass board. Regardless of the shaky gazing splits that demonstrated upward after a few hits, the glass board stayed in place.
The extension extends for 430 meters between two precipices and drifts 300 meters over the ground. It is a beautiful skywalk that is as of now piled on a bundle of world records even before it authoritatively opened to the general population.
Composed by Israeli designer Haim Dotan, the extension can hold 800 individuals without a moment's delay and there are arrangements for it to be utilized as a style runway and additionally a bungee hopping point.
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