The current craze to create structures to terrify acrophobiacs (those with an extreme or irrational fear of heights) in the Alps shows no sign of abating.
Following the creation of the world’s highest zipwire above Val Thorens, a glass balcony at Aiguille du Midi in Chamonix, various glass-bottomed high altitude gondolas, an outdoor balcony on the cable car up to the Dachstein glacier and numerous other new high altitude suspension bridges and balconies over massive voids, Gstaad has announced a new ‘world first.’
The resort’s spectacular new “Peak Walk” suspension bridge is currently under construction at Glacier 3000, the area’s high altitude ski sector with year round glacier snow cover and skiing from early autumn to later spring.
The 100m long suspension bridge will connect two mountain summits, View Point and Scex Rouge.
It is scheduled to open in November 2014.