It’s 100 metres long, 1.6 metres wide and a chilling 300 metres above ground.

It’s called the Coiling Dragon Cliff skywalk and it overlooks Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China’s Hunan province.

Oh, yeah, there’s one other thing: it’s made entirely of glass.

In other words, those scared of heights need not apply. Even looking at your feet on this thing is liable to give you vertigo.

Photographs of the skywalk, which recently opened to the public, show how popular it already is among China’s domestic tourist population. They also show how impressive the view – which takes in the famous “Avenue to the Sky,” a road with 99 turns that weaves its way up the mountain – really is. It would certainly be very nice to see it.

But we don’t know, dear reader. There’s mountain climbing and there’s mountain climbing. The first involves climbing equipment, years of a practice and, like, Tenzing Norgay or someone on your side. The other involves walking along a glass path on the side of a Chinese mountain with hundreds of other tourists in shorts. All it takes is one little crack, right?

One little crack was certainly all it took at the Yuntai Mountain walkway in China’s Henan province last year. Those who braved the death-defying walkway – which, at more than a kilometre above ground, leaves even the Coiling Dragon for dead – wondered whether they’d manage to defy death after all when the glass pane beneath their feet suddenly shattered, causing them to lose their collective you-know-what. A mini-stampede immediately broke out – doubtless causing the glass to crack more – at it was only by the grace of someone or other that the two remaining glass panels withstood the pressure.

A spokesman from the Yuntai Mountain tourism bureau later told the People’s Daily Online that the cracks occurred when a tourist dropped a stainless steel mug onto it.

To be fair, we’d probably need a mug of something strong to get us out on a walkway like that as well. If it’s all the same to you, dear reader, we’ll wait for you down here at the bottom.