Matt Burgess
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The world's highest glass bridge opens this weekend

China's giant glass-bottom bridge will finally open to 8,000 tourists a day

This article was originally published by WIRED UK

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    The bridge, in China's Hunan province, connects between two mountain cliffs in Central china
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    It cost £2.6m to build and is 300m above the ground
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    There's 99 panes of the three-layered glass laid along the centre of the bridge
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    Up to 8,000 visitors will be allowed on the bridge each day
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    In total the bridge is 430m in length
Matt Burgess is a senior writer at WIRED focused on information security, privacy, and data regulation in Europe. He graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in journalism and now lives in London. Send tips to [email protected]. ... Read More
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