Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Footbridge

Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Footbridge
张家界大峡谷玻璃桥
World's Highest Footbridge
Sanguansixiang, Hunan, China
820 feet high / 250 meters high
1,411 foot span / 430 meter span
2016

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Opened in 2016 as the highest and largest footbridge ever constructed, the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Footbridge is also home to the highest public bungy platform in the world with a drop of 250 meters. The central suspension span is spectacular not only for having glass panels along its entire length but also for the tapered deck that is 40 meters wide at the ends of the bridge before narrowing to a width of only 6 meters in the center. Bridge architect Haim Dotan and engineer Zhi Dong Cheng pulled off this rare feat of engineering by curving the two main support cables inward, allowing the web of wire support stringers to soar outward in a V-shaped pattern that opens the bridge up to the sky like a giant butterfly.

The Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Footbridge is one of several attractions within the privately owned park that is located just 20 minutes east of the famous Zhangjiajie National Park that inspired the look of the Avatar movies.

at an outward angle as they rise from the deck in . This also and all the wire support stringers inward wide placement of the cable towers on either cliff edge. By forcing the two main cables to pull inward at the center that widen out towards the two ends of the bridge creating angled suspender cables that

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