A Plank In The Sky, China
In order to walk up this mountainside, you have to harness yourself to the ropes that cascade across the flat rocks. Obviously, it would be a deadly risk to cross without taking any safety precautions.
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Are You Brave Enough To Cross These Death-Defying Bridges?
The More You Know
- Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
- A solar powered, self-filling water bottle has been invented for bike riders that condenses atmospheric moisture to automatically fill the bottle.
- One in four Americans thinks that the Sun revolves around the Earth.
- A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.