For thrill seekers and for those with steely nerves try this - a
walk on Switzerland’s new Mount Titlis Cliff Walk – billed as Europe’s highest
suspension bridge and most-certainly one of the world’s scariest.
Stretching
almost 100m over a vast drop between two points of the Swiss Alps and at 3000m
above sea level, the bridge offers views across the Alps, and on a clear day
into Italy.
With
a steel-mesh deck just 90cm wide and reinforced wire-mesh sides 2m high to
prevent any possibility of visitors falling off, the Cliff Walk took five
months to build at a cost of AU$1.53m.
And
while it sways as visitors walk across it at any time, it can truly rock ‘n'
roll when swept by 200kmh gales, making it as a spokeswoman said, "the
highest-adrenaline new adventure in Switzerland.
"But
as well as winter gales it’s strong enough to carry up to 500 tonnes of snow
and ice – something that’s highly unlikely as it will be regularly ‘groomed’
during the winter months.”
(David Ellis reporting for Get Up & Go)
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