Chinese tourist clings to glass-bottomed bridge 330 feet in the air after high winds blow floor panels out
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Mia Jankowicz
May 10, 2021, 20:42 IST
A still from a 2019 YouTube video of the glass bridge at Longjing in Jilin province.Dimitris Ketsetzidis/YouTube
A tourist clung to a glass bridge in China as the panes smashed in high winds, local media reported.
The bridge spans a 330-foot-high mountain ravine in northeastern China and was hit by 93-mph gusts.
The tourist was uninjured, but people have raised concern about the increasingly popular attraction.
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A Chinese tourist was stranded 330 feet high on a glass-bottomed bridge in high winds Friday when floor panes blew off and smashed, according to local media.
Pictures shared on social media show a before-and-after view of the bridge, with a tourist clinging to its metal framework. Much of the framework is twisted and buckled, with only a few glass panes - the only standing surface -remaining.
The tourist held on for 35 minutes while firefighters and police officers attempted to rescue him, and he eventually crawled to safety, Xinhua reported. Nobody was injured, but the tourist was moved to a hospital and is receiving counseling, the outlet said.
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You can watch one tourist's experience of walking across the bridge on a less windy day here:
Glass-decked bridges are an increasingly popular novelty in China, with at least 60 built since 2016, the outlet reported. Regions have sought to outdo one another with world records.
The Zhangjiajie bridge in Hunan province is 1,410 feet long and is often overwhelmingly crowded with tourists, as Insider reported. But that record was beaten in 2020 by the Huangchuan Three Gorges bridge in Lianzhou, in southern China, which is more than 1,700 feet long.
The Piyan mountain-bridge accident has some commentators asking about these bridges' safety records, with one person with the username "Li" saying on social media, "This is exactly why I dare not step on a bridge like that," Xinhua reported.
The bridge in the Piyan mountains has been closed, and the local authority, the Longjing city government, is to launch a safety review of all its tourist attractions, Xinhua said.
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