Chinese
Sky Walkers
23 March
2007
A skywalk was
offcially opened to skywalkers over the Grand
Canyon in the United States on 20 March 2007,
and the guy who initiated the concept design
of this new wonder is said to be a SBS -
Shanghai born Shanghainese. Therefore it
could be quite safe to assume he is a
Chinese.
If so, it's no wonder
then, because Chinese are masters of sky
walking. We have proves here. In the photo 1
a Chinese sky walker is shown in full swing,
literary.
Photo 1: A
Chinese sky walker highlighted in
the light circle are travelling
from a temple built on the edge
of a cliff to reach the another
cliff top
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Unlike in the case of the
Grand Canyon Skywalk where you look down
through thick glasses, here you can enjoy a
complete open spectacle of the natural
majesty. And it certainly does not cost 454
tons of metal to have 100 steel bars drilled
into limestone bedrock 40 feet deep. In this
Chinese skywalk one set of iron train is
suffice to do the job - it brings least to
the original environment, and takes away
nothing.
Photo 2: Strolling
leisurely on the narrow footpath in his
vertically challenged backyard
信步于空中闲庭
It seems the SBS did not
introduce the best of the East to the West
when he proposed his design concept. But on
the other hand, he may have a good reason for
not doing so. In the noble spirit of sharing
- as we would like to guess - he doesn't want
to see the high experience to be exclusively
reserved for super kung fu masters. And he
may argue that the old and the young and the
fit and the weak shall all have an
opportunity to explore a lofty point of view
as it is demonstrated in the photo 3.
Photo
3: Some Indian
elders and two aging former
astronauts are among the
first group of people
stepping onto the thick glass
floor of the Grand Canyon
Skywalk
But does it centainly
have to be the case? Without a broad glass
floor the ordinary folk will definitely have
no chance to acquire a broad perspective?
Look what is happening in the photo 4.
"Sky walk?
Just a piece of cake. And I have
many pieces of cakes in my
basket."
A group of Chinese
vilagers living in China's
southwest are on their way home
after attending a market fair
How about this
dizzying stroll? Braved by the men and the
women, the granny and the baby, with heavy
burdens on the back or in the arm.
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