Glass bridge opens in Hunan (21 images)

Haohan Qiao, or Brave Man's Bridge in English, is made of glass planes 24 millimeters thick and 25 times stronger than normal glass. The bridge is considered the highest operating glass bridge in the world.

Hundreds of Chinese tourists visit a recently completed glass-bottomed bridge nearly 600 yards above a sheer drop in Shiniuzhai Park in northern Hunan Province, China, on October 24, 2015. Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI

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Hundreds of Chinese tourists visit a recently completed glass-bottomed bridge nearly 600 yards above a sheer drop in Shiniuzhai Park in northern Hunan Province, China, on October 24, 2015. Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI

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Hundreds of Chinese tourists visit a recently completed glass-bottomed bridge nearly 600 yards above a sheer drop in Shiniuzhai Park in northern Hunan Province, China, on October 24, 2015. Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI

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Hundreds of Chinese tourists visit a recently completed glass-bottomed bridge nearly 600 yards above a sheer drop in Shiniuzhai Park in northern Hunan Province, China, on October 24, 2015. Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI

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