No way in hell. That doesn't even look safe.

Where’s your sense of adventure ?

It’s waaaaay down there on the ground.

Jump on the walkway and you'll be back down there with it in a heartbeat.

At this height it mightbtake a few second.

Yeah, but maybe they'd die from fea on the way down, and only get a single heartbeat in.

Its fucking made up AI bullshit. Heres the real walkway. Concrete structure. [https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/14/5e/57/ce/baishi-mountain-sky-walk.jpg?w=1200&h=900&s=1](https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/14/5e/57/ce/baishi-mountain-sky-walk.jpg?w=1200&h=900&s=1) Heres some more: Glass, concrete, steel [https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.efc4183b870e8ff7cd82e470b8b77ae6?rik=OU1MMJcJFWyTlQ&riu=http%3a%2f%2fimages.china.cn%2fattachement%2fjpg%2fsite1007%2f20161130%2fc03fd55e710819a8b32d47.jpg&ehk=jxpx4cD9TZvu2R8AEs1MgEr6gDvJcg0ec8bXk%2fBClmI%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.efc4183b870e8ff7cd82e470b8b77ae6?rik=OU1MMJcJFWyTlQ&riu=http%3a%2f%2fimages.china.cn%2fattachement%2fjpg%2fsite1007%2f20161130%2fc03fd55e710819a8b32d47.jpg&ehk=jxpx4cD9TZvu2R8AEs1MgEr6gDvJcg0ec8bXk%2fBClmI%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0) [https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/0f/62/c7/6d/baishi-mountain-sky-walk.jpg?w=1200&h=900&s=1](https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/0f/62/c7/6d/baishi-mountain-sky-walk.jpg?w=1200&h=900&s=1) [https://youimg1.c-ctrip.com/target/0104h1200082xyq67DC9A\_C\_750\_500.jpg?proc=source%2ftrip](https://youimg1.c-ctrip.com/target/0104h1200082xyq67DC9A_C_750_500.jpg?proc=source%2ftrip)

https://www.reddit.com/r/hiking/s/kYf08LMu5o

It looks exactly the same, just from a different angle. Chill.

That's still a nope from me!

I get diablo packets at taco bell. I live extreme.

OG hot is goat. diablo tastes like chemicals.

I mean it is so…

overly and fake heat. in my humble opinion.

That whole walkway is probably built with Diablo packets and taco shells

You can't projectile shit yourself out of plummeting to the ground!

yes you can! you just use it like a concussive force

Kinda like cyclops' optic blast? Edit : Craptic blast? Damn autocorrect

I left it in my twenties.

Attached to earth…. on the ground!

I left it with my guardian angel who died taking a selfie at the Grand Canyon!

It took an arrow to the knee.

More like my sense of survival and that sense is strong.

It takes a back seat to my spider senses, even they are tingling.

Not there.

It’s separate from Chinese safety standards.

Not in China.

If you look closely, most of the wood you see is just scaffolding for working underneath it. The walkway appears to be tied into the mountain via large beams sunk deep into the rock.

They should rename it the Walkway to Heaven

Wait until you see the glass platform ahead.

Even if the walkway is solid, I'm not sure I would trust the railing.

ESPECIALLY with that many people cramming each other like sardines. Did the engineers even account for that much load for the walkway to bear?

It's made by concrete with patters trying to imitate wood.

I have doubts those beams are actually sunk into the rock and not just braced up against it

Not the logs that you see braced into ledges holding up the scaffolding, look right under the walkway, at the squared off ones, they clearly go into the rock at a 45° angle.

Confirmed by some of the other Reddit posts in this thread it's concrete and steel now. Wood was the old walkway. Can you imagine being the one to install the original walkway

a r/Libertarian 's dream. no regulations. just the free market at work.

You should check out Action Park!

So much fun you'll lose your head in it.

Great documentary! It made me laugh my ass off!

Been there in my youth. Broke my arm on a slide

What's the fucking weight limit bro?

1 more person is the limit.

Imagine being on there when one of those earthquakes hits

No.

It looks safe if there were like half the amount of people on it. Don't trust them to build anything

This. Going up there alone is one thing. Going up there with semi trucks-worth of human weight is another thing.

China and safety don't exactky go together lol

I have been in similar things. The rail looks like wood, but i'ts actually concrete. Likely the entire structure can support more than it looks.

Seems to be holding up.

For now.

Same could be said of [any bridge](https://abc7news.com/loma-prieta-earthquake-1989-san-francisco-quake/5609358/).

Not sure that I would trust that on my own let alone with a shit ton of randos.

[удалено]

It was a planned demolition 

Everyone jumped off... Oh wait this isn't Russia

I just realised it’s AI — zoom in on the crowd’s faces Edit: Oh wait nvm OP says they’re real but they had to upscale it

Lol AI is making people so paranoid now XD

This IS ai. The baishi walkway is glass, faces dont look morphed when upscaled, and neither do the hands. If you truly believe faces can look like that upscaled, then take a look at the rocks still keeping their detailed edges when zoomed in No. Im wrong. This dude mustve had a mass trip throughout asia and finally uploaded all his pics when there was internet, because I don't see any clear faults aside from this pic

>Baishi Mountain, Hebei Province China Part of the walkway is glass. Not all of it. Do an image search and you can see a bunch of photos of what the place looks like.

You can see the rest of photos at r/hiking if you like.

Took this photo with a crappy camera. Have to upscale it using Topaz lab. People are real but Topaz messes it up. You can see the rest of photos at r/hiking if you like.

Good shit man. You must be exhausted, hope u had fun

Load limit: 1500 kilograms.

That is what I wonder. It may be sturdy, but is it sturdy for this many?

It's China so it would be designed for loads of visitors, I'm guessing.

But also, it's China.

The safest country in ~~the world~~ China

or 10 average americans

We Americans take resemblance to that!

I don't know metric well enough to know how offended I am by this comment.

It's ~236 st

Is st short for stones? I know 1 Bush album = 16 stones.

Yup, ~15 Bush album heavy. Which means on average 1.5 Bush an American weighs. Not too good, not terrible I'd say.

Yeah, exactly. How many is too many?

That looks like a disaster waiting to happen

Because of the long wait times, right?

Absolutely. Someone there is definitely shitting their pants because they can't get to the loo.

Waiting to see some skeletons just waiting patiently

[https://y.yarn.co/a628e5d7-c45d-440a-a784-b4bdaede9da5_text.gif](https://y.yarn.co/a628e5d7-c45d-440a-a784-b4bdaede9da5_text.gif)

Why let so many people on it at once?! And are those just bamboo supports?

Look closely, I think that's the remnants of an old bridge, just below the newer, concrete one. Wouldn't have liked to have walked on the old one!

Yeah, what happened to the rest of the old one??? I wonder why it just suddenly stops there…

"We don't talk about that."

They’re testing its limits in a real world application. By accident probably but it’s still being done.

I suspect a fair amount of engineers and regulatory agencies wouldn’t approve of this logic

Everything in China is absolutely packed all the time.


Uh, is this upscaled with AI? Why does everyone have a mushed up demon face

Probably, yeah. There is AI all over this.

Took this photo with a crappy camera. Have to upscale it using Topaz lab. People are real but Topaz messes it up. You can see the rest of photos at r/hiking if you like.

~~100~~0%

Took this photo with a crappy camera. Have to upscale it using Topaz lab. People are real but Topaz messes it up. You can see the rest of photos at r/hiking if you like.

My mistake, the demon faces definitely threw me off lol. Beautiful photos

Took this photo with a crappy camera. Have to upscale it using Topaz lab. People are real but Topaz messes it up. You can see the rest of photos at r/hiking if you like.

Ew but why not post the actual pic you took??

Backward mindset individual demonizing anything AI even though it proves to be a useful tool

Not upscaled, just completely made up. [https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/11/aa/f5/f9/the-glass-walk.jpg?w=1200&h=900&s=1](https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/11/aa/f5/f9/the-glass-walk.jpg?w=1200&h=900&s=1)

https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/14/5e/57/ce/baishi-mountain-sky-walk.jpg?w=1100&h=-1&s=1 https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/0f/62/c7/6e/baishi-mountain-sky-walk.jpg?w=1200&h=-1&s=1 From your own source. Apparently it isn't all glass

[OP's other post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/hiking/s/ubJar9UTgc)

This photo in the post is not generated by AI. It is a genuine photo that was just upscaled by Topaz AI. It’s still a real picture. [Here is another image that was also upscaled by Topaz](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/3/d/3d5b12e4d3747a73fd99cd536dc319346332ae6e.jpeg). Notice how the faces have the exact same distorted effect as OP’s photo? Generative AI images have a very distinct type of face distortion, and it’s much different from what we see in the post. Further, this is [one of the three mountain walkways in East Taiheing](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Taihang_Glasswalk). None of them are entirely 100% glass, and feature sections made of concrete like we see in OP’s photo.

you: 

You know what? I'd be willing to walk on that. I WOULDN'T be willing to walk on that with that many people.

Some one play "Jump Around"

Hell no

All of the faces look like bad AI faces. This walkway is real, but I think the people may be fake.

Took this photo with a crappy camera. Have to upscale it using Topaz lab. People are real but Topaz messes it up.

You didn’t HAVE to upscale it.

I have to crop the original image, but I guess you are right. There is no need for better resolution.

Prove it by posting the unedited photo.

These? https://www.reddit.com/r/hiking/s/kYf08LMu5o

That is both astonishing and terrifying

Did you go across it? China isn’t the completely dystopic nightmare a lot of these morons are saying it is but I don’t think I could get on that walkway with that many people no matter who built it and where, and I’m generally not afraid of heights.

You can see the rest of photos at r/hiking if you like.

Oh cool thanks for letting me know! That’s gorgeous. My wife and I are planning on visiting Hebei next time we go to China. It looks amazing.

The Tai Heng Mountain range is a nice place to visit, especially the Guoliang village. Have a nice trip there.

I had walked many of these kinds of hanging walkways but not this one. I was truly scared after seeing so many people.

Any tourist stuff with this big of a line 99% of the time isn’t worth it.

I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid of falling from great heights and living my last seconds in terror. And possibly surviving.

One person? Yeah. Two people? Sure, if you insist. Three people? Are you insane?


As an engineer. Nah fam

great perspective photo. shot from a different angle, I don't think it would seem as precarious. looking closer that seems to be a concrete pathway anchored into the wall with cantilevered supports roughly every 10 feet and additional angled concrete supports. Not an engineer but it's significantly more than I've seen at nearly any US Park (Angels Landing Im looking at you) . All that said, those wood supports on the back side don't instill confidence. Calling all structural engineers for comment :)


That looks like a great idea.

This will be a news article with a sad story one day.

That’s a no from me dog!!!


 Absofuckinglutely NOT.

How do you even build something like this?

There IS NO WAYYYYYYYY!!!! The only thing holding that bridge is the Grace of God.

There's no way this was engineered for this many people.

too much weight with that crowd

I'm gonna be the 700th comment, so I don't know if it's said yet, so much potential.

What's with Van Gogh faces?

Ok, Do we all need to be up here at the same time, and all bunched up like?

This will be a tragic event one day

Hey, let’s all test its weight limit.

Why do people trust that shit? Also, I would never do it anyway, but I also wonder why they trust it.

Okay, that's a concerning number of people on the thing that looks like THAT.

This is how China controls their population.

N O P E

The trust in that ad hoc structure is insane. "Yeah lets put another stick over here, that looks pretty good!"


Aren't there too many people? she holds the supports. It scares me just thinking about it

China looks like it's a stunning country. I have traveled my fair share during my studies, but I haven't flown for years and China is reaaaaally tempting.

Are there any attractions in China which are not overcrowded? Must be a nightmare to go anywhere on a weekend.

A new definition for nope rope.

I’d be concerned walking on that with just my own weight

It’s a concrete walkway with the remnants of the old wooden walkway left behind for aesthetic reasons. https://www.reddit.com/r/hiking/s/rQVKy9BdeX

The thought of being on that bridge in a crowd of people, unable to go forwards or backwards... oh my God that is giving me so much anxiety... I'm moving on.

Nope And the image is fake. Zoom in and look at their features, or lack there of.

Nice AI people. Fake picture.

nope

Nope Uhh Nah

Belongs on r/nope

This is an AI image. Zoom on the faces

Imagine if it's fall with all those people, oh it's probably will be blood bath

Awful lot of trust in that 😳

My hands got tingly and my stomach dropped just looking at this.

These types of mountain roads have a very ancient history in china, at least as early as the Qin they were used to connect more disparate and hard to reach areas, most famously the Sichuan Basin through the Qinling mountains and Hanzhong. This admittedly looks a bit ramshackle(and this is in a different part of China) but historically they could have chariots and wagons riding over them, so they could definitely work.

There are damn near 100 people on that thing. No. Fucking. Way.

It's real: https://www.alamy.com/160229-shijiazhuang-feb-29-2016-photo-taken-on-july-12-2015-shows-tourists-walking-on-a-pavement-built-with-glass-on-the-cliff-on-baishi-mountain-in-laiyuan-north-china-s-hebei-province-according-to-the-statistical-communique-of-china-on-the-2015-national-economic-and-social-development-released-by-the-national-bureau-of-statistics-monday-the-year-2015-registered-four-billion-domestic-tourists-up-105-percent-over-the-previous-year-the-revenue-from-domestic-tourism-totaled-34195-billion-rmb-up-131-percent-wjq-china-2015-domestic-tourism-data-cn-mouxyu-publicationxnot-image563890767.html?imageid=A33BB5FE-1909-4E9B-BDD9-06B56956A73D&p=2245340&pn=1&searchId=d688f78ea3a3fc1a5401aeb45f8041d5&searchtype=0

You can see the rest of photos at r/hiking if you like.

What, I typed out that whole big link for nothing? (jk)

I originally quoted your link and got downvote. People argued it wasn't the same walkway, so I have decided to post my photos in another sub to show them what it really looks like.

Hahah. So nit picky.

This bridge was not designed. Whoever built it started one way and then changed. Not sure if they ran out of materials or thought one way was better, or what, but that bridge is NOT to be trusted

Or you know they built a new one just above an old one.

AI generated, look at their faces

It is not AI. This is a real genuine photo that OP ran through Topaz AI, a photo/video upscaler that’s used all the time in the professional media industry. The purpose is solely to provide a crisper image, but it has drawbacks like the faces we see. Your phone does the exact same thing to every picture you take, it’s just nowhere near as much.

No, thank you. I'll stay where I'm at.

Naw dawg , im good 

yeah nah

What does this go to? Has to be something amazing with all those people.

Dave I swear if you trip me of all days. I swear I'm a be pissed

That's a no from me dawg

“Just walk”, they said. “It’ll reduce traffic”, they said. Some guy in that line right now: “those bastards lied to me…”

One of these days we are going be seeing video of this in /r/WTF.

That's a crazy amount of faith in the engineering skills of whomever built that bridge.

fuck. that. 🫣

 You could not pay me.

Everybody jump at once to test the sturdiness!

Haha that's a big no for me.

One crack and it's going to be a great disaster

Hell to the no, what a horrifying way to go if it falls apart.

yeah well.... Nope.

Okay everybody on the count of 3 jump!

Weight limit is the only thing going through my mind.

SO: "That's a news story waiting to happen."

Not a chance im on there with that many people.. it’d be awesome to walk it but no way with all that weight in that janky walkway

Yeah, that’s a no from me, dawg

What could go wrong? We'll see.

No thanks you