Tokyo Nights
Life In Tokyo - Neil Stalnaker
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Can You Handle This.......?

Got Nerves of Steel? Take Your Vacation Here!

COULD YOU HANDLE THIS ONE???

New Grand Canyon Skywalk

Scheduled to open Jan. 1, 2006 Hualapai Indian Reservation

Juts about 70 feet into the canyon, 4000 ft above the Colorado River

Will accommodate 120 people comfortably

Built with more than a million pounds of steel beams, and includes dampeners that minimize the structure's vibration.

Designed to hold 72 million pounds, withstand an 8.0 magnitude

earthquake 50 miles away, and withstand winds in excess of 100 mph

The walkway has a glass bottom and sides...four inches thick