Grand Kanyon - Skywalk

[anniesdad]

Has anybody seen this?

I'm thinking that it'll be on the agenda for me next year! :yikes:

[url]Skywalk|http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0826_050826_grandcanyon.html[/url]

[scorp]

I could imagine the creaking and groaning that would do in high winds. I think my fear of human-engineering might get the better of me on that one

[staceyb]

Remind me to stay away from that place. Not a snowmans chance in hell would I be walking on that thing.

[Nevin]

Scary enough just standing on the top as it is just now.

Do you want to borrow my book "Death in the Grand Canyon". Lots of stories of people falling over the edge (mainly due to sheer stupidity).

[anniesdad]

Ah come on! Where's your sense of adventure.

[scorp]

anniesdad said:

Ah come on! Where's your sense of adventure.

My mortgage, wife and kids took mine

>> Edited by scorp on Monday 24th October 15:33

[staceyb]

My sense of adventure is getting out of bed in the mornings.

Its not my fault I'm scared of heights, blame the uncle who thought it would be funny to put a 3yr old child on top of a fridge freezer.

[Nevin]

anniesdad said:

Ah come on! Where's your sense of adventure.

I would do it, but it would be pretty damn unnerving. Like standing on one of the glass panels in the observatory on Mont Blanc, or indeed just looking over the edge when stood up there.

[Einion Yrth]

scorp said:

anniesdad said: Ah come on! Where's your sense of adventure. My mortgage, wife and kids took mine >> Edited by scorp on Monday 24th October 15:33

Yeah, but you're insured surely, they'd be fine.

[kerfuffle]

It'll take a minute to get used to but then you'll love it. I was on the glass floor on the CN Tower the other week and it was bloody weird. The funniest thing was standing back and watching people approaching it - there was a lot of leaning back and tapping the glass with feet going on. And then grannies looking horrified as kids divebombed the glass

[anniesdad]

kerfuffle said:

as kids divebombed the glass

Now....THAT'S....What i'm talkin' 'bout!

[siwil1]

I'm going to vegas in April I hope its open it looks awesome !

On an aside has anyone been on the rides on the top of the Stratosphere?

[planetdave]

anniesdad said:

kerfuffle said: as kids divebombed the glass Now....THAT'S....What i'm talkin' 'bout!

Last time I was up Blackpool Tower some 18 stone lummox was jumping up and down in that exagerated trying-to-crack-the-ice way on the glass panel.

Very scary.

Coz I just had to walk on it (next) to prove the hugeness of my cohones to the massed hordes.

Very difficult to look manly when tiptoeing onto a big sheet of glass

[Nevin]

siwil1 said:

I'm going to vegas in April I hope its open it looks awesome ! On an aside has anyone been on the rides on the top of the Stratosphere?

No, but I was standing inside the Stratosphere watching them. They look absolutely terrifying. Really, horrifically so.

[kerfuffle]

planetdave said:

I just had to walk on it (next) to prove the hugeness of my cohones to the massed hordes.

Ah yes, the accidental 'Good Lord, here I am in my kilt walking across a glass floor. What are the chances of that?' routine.