would you walk on this ?
 

the Grand Canyon skywalk is due to open next month ,
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...home-headlines

just curious how many of you would be prepared to take a walk on it given the chance.

and I wonder how long before it sees its first jumper either with or without a parachute :D :D :D

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Quite simply put NO NEVER.

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would love to :D

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no naffin chance

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not even with your OAP discount ? :D

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like i said the other day mate, i'll NEVER be as old as you ;) x

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Hell nooooooooooo !!!!!

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and as i pointed out there is a huge difference betwen been old and looking old

sory about your luck :D :D :D :D

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How old are you again ...... was it 40 year old? :p :D

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better than been 40 cm tall ;)

and ime 29

honest :D

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Yes....I would do it. I woould also love to do the Sydney Bridge walk......OK, I know it isn't in the same category....but would still love to do it.

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i wouldnt mnind seeing niagra falls as well , i have a friend that lives 5 mins away from it but teh flights are very expensive or i would have gone by now :rolleyes:

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chav yer karma's suddenly gone up

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Yes i'd walk round that. Its a lot safer than going across a rope bridge anyway when you have a cousin standing at one end and another at the other and they start shaking it when you are halfway across!!!

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ooooo I would love to go on there, even though i am scared of heights:o , it would be brilliant!!!
be nice to get wed up there too:p

emmm wonder how many will jump off!!:rolleyes:

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No, I doubt it!

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absolutely!

Where do I sign!

Oh hang on, its in merkinland....(Sorry Brian!)

no thanks. nowt to do with the walk.... anyone else just watch Top Gear? I'm sorry, the merkins[1] need to take a long hard look at themselves.

[1] sorry but attacking people irrespective of what they have written on their car is crap. as is the way they talk about carrying (and using) guns. You can't seriously be asking to be respected as a major centre of culture etc whilst you allow whats happened in New Orleans etc to be going on as it STILL is.

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I would love to walk round that. It looks perfectly safe and enclosed. As long as I can't fall off it I'm fine. :)

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I'd do it ............ but I'd hang around and watch a few other people have a go first to make sure it was safe.

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Yeah, I'd take the stroll. Heck, I stood on the big hunk of see through glass in the Blackpool Tower!:eek: ;)

Niagra Falls is absolutely gorgeous though it's been many years since I've been able to go.

Brian

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definately would love too, i hadn,t the bottle to fly over it in a helicopter lol but could walk that no problem.;)

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I struggled going over the glass thing on blackpool tower so god knows how id be if i were to attempt that.......me thinks NOTTTTT....

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well go over this then cherokee

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main...-carrickarede/

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Noooooooooooooooooo Way!!!!!

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Why not - when you cross that and look down the sea is all different colours it looks really nice!!

Its a lot safer now though - thats the old bridge its a steel rope bridge now and its like a net on the side.

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Did the Helicopter ride a few years back , the pilot had Wagners "Ride of the Valkiries' (movie soundtrack from Apocalypse Now)playing on the headsets, not sure if I should mention ,was on illicit substances at the time , a surreal experiance :D :D :D

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HEEHEE Im not kidding jen but on the end of the south pier is the cat n mouse ride and theres a mesh kinda ledge thing to walk around and i wont even do that lol....

let me go up in a light aircraft anytime but walks of courage/death ...no chance lol!!

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It is safe enough to go over unless you do have cousins swinging it on either side. If my bro can go over it anyone can!!!

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Mmmmm No Way Hosa

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i'd love to jump off that!!!

it wud b a rush!!

leave it to the last second b4 the bungee rope kicks int

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Only if you could base jump of it.

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I'm a total sissy when it comes to heights, but I would like to think that if I'd gone all the way to the Grand Canyon I would do the walk. I would also like to do the Sydney Harbour Bridge climb, but I'm waiting to do it with Margaret..:D

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Really could'nt say:( Me & hieghts don't agree.But i think if i managed to fly all the way there,it would be a waste not to give a possible once in a lifetime experience a try.

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Years ago as a kid, during my naval career and for many years afterwards I could climb the heights without a single bad thought in my head. 600 feet up a land based radio mast at HMS Inskip near Preston is my highest achievement. I’ve stood on the very edge of Table Mountain and looked down without any effects.

Today I get an awful feeling looking down from a high rise flat window but I can look out into the distance OK. The best that I can manage now is looking down from a bedroom window of a normal house.

I recently watched Paul Merton’s programme about silent films and when Harold Lloyd’s clock hanging was shown and a guy climbing up a skyscraper I got that awful feeling in my guts. The same happens when I watch a film that has people climbing mountains or hanging off skyscrapers etc.

But I would probably manage that skywalk just as long as I didn’t look down. But then that would defeat the object of the exercise, wouldn’t it?

If it gives the native Americans a better standard of living then I am all for it.

Just one other point - once you get above about 100 feet and fall onto somewthing hard, you are the same strawberry jam as if you had fallen from 4,000 feet. Hopefully from such a height you would be unconsious long before you splattered on the deck. It’s not the distance that you fall but the sudden stop at the end that does the damage.

The definition of an optimist - An optimist is some who, whilst falling thousands of feet, reassures himself with, “so far so good.”

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you mean like the bloke whose parachute failed? was it last night they showed the footage :eek;

Heights don't bother me at all, I've bungee'd twice, parachuted and climbed a 40ft pole and got up on a 9" circular piece of wood at the top.(OK, I did have a harness on but I reckon I could still do it without). At 16 I walked down the narrow ledge of a narrow boat going over the Pontcysyllte Aquaduct on the side without a railing

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Errrrrr pass.....................Blackpool tower is high & bad enough:eek:

I have a fear of heights altho i think its the fear of falling & breaking my neck that worries me more lol

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There have been many stories of people falling from enormous heights and surviving to tell the tale but they have all their fall broken by something like trees before hitting the ground.

The first that I can remember is when a rear gunner in a Lancaster, I think it was, during a bombing run had his turret shot from under him and he fell to earth from several thousand feet. He landed in a wood in enemy territory with just a few broken bones. Naturally the Germans captured him but refused to believe his story and initially treated him as a spy. However his plane had been shot down and the wreckage did not have a rear turret and his parachute was found onboard. The Germans were so impressed with his survival that they issued him with a certificate to authenticate his miraculous escape.

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a few years ago a soldier had parachute failure and landed on bog ground/mossy type stuff and walked away from his landing with a few busted ribs and other minor injuries, it was in england but i forget where but it made al the main headlines on teh news stations , roughly 10 year ago

some folk are just damn lucky :)

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Id parachute off it

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I felt sick looking at the diagram you attached steeljack-just thinking about it makes my stomach churn :(
You could not pay me to walk across that.

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it looks great, :D

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I hope they are planning to install a substantial guardrail on that sucker! No, this is not for me. I much prefer the pristine nature of the North Rim......and far less tourists.

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Just out of curio is it a suicide hotspot??