Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Grand Canyon Skywalk)
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Grand Canyon Skywalk)
Quote: The $30 million all-glass Skywalk will hover 4,000 feet above the Colorado River over a rim of the Grand Canyon, allowing tourists to stroll on a semicircular platform 80 yards beyond the canyon rim, surrounded by Plexiglas that will provide a spectacular view of the canyon floor directly below. The Skywalk’s opening is planned for early 2006, the attraction being part of a new Grand Canyon West resort on the Hualapai reservation at the western edge of the park, about 120 miles from Las
Vegas.
Sounds…..... REALLY BLOODY SCARY…. but also pretty cool. 
Says it will accomodate 120 people and hold 72 million pounds, so that’s 600,000 pounds per person, which I think would allow for every single other person to be a $%@#$%ing idiot and jump up and down at the same time and still have plenty of safety margin.
I think I’d be scared out of my mind, but it sounds like something I’d like to try…
$30,000,000 to build, $25 tickets, that’s 1,200,000 people not counting operating expenses for ROI. As it happens, though, that would be 10,000 ‘sets’ (1,200,000/120) of people… heh.
I can’t imagine this thing not being wildly popular, with the ticket price being the only minor drawback…