Aug 19, 2016 5:45 AM

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

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