10 Oct Tour Guide Left Terrified By Spontaneously “Cracking” Glass Floor 3,800 Feet In The Air

Acrophobia – better known as the fear of heights – is common. When I recently went on a rollercoaster on a pier, I found my stomach churning as I looked down as the waves thrashing below me, but I wouldn’t say that it’s a fear I experience often.

The higher up a person is, the more likely it is that they will experience acrophobia and sensations associated with vertigo. This is something which the Chinese tourist board have capitalized on, and now countless see-through glass walkways have been erected around the country.

But a glass walkway on the East Taiheng Mountains has taken the nation’s love of frightening walkways to a whole new and much more terrifying height. It has glass panels which appear to crack at a height of 3,800 feet. For acrophobics, it is the stuff of nightmares.

The ‘cracking’ is achieved using sensors and special effects which make the floor look and sound like it has suddenly shattered as tourists walk over it. The bizarre feature was added to the see-through walkway to make visitors’ experiences more exciting.

Given that the thought of falling from a considerable height has caused people to have heart and panic attacks in the past, it is not an attraction for the faint-hearted, and this was proven by the reaction of one tour guide to the spontaneously shattering floor.

The guide’s reaction was posted by People’s Daily Online in a 10-second-long Twitter video, which shows the guide fear for his life as cracks appear in the glass-bottom floor. Like any reasonable person, he falls to the ground and begins to scream in terror.

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