DESTINATIONS — CANADA
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Joanna Booth tests her head for heights in Alberta
WALKING IN THE AIR I
t’s a big challenge, apparently, getting just the right level of wobble.
This is not an issue addressed in the latest series of The
Great British Bake Off – we’re not referring to jelly. I’m talking to Jeremy Sturgess, the architect responsible for the Glacier Skywalk. This glass-floored observation platform curves out from a cliff edge in Alberta’s Sunwapta Valley like a giant see-through horseshoe balanced over a 280-metre sheer drop. You might think the optimum wobble factor would be zero.
Apparently not. London’s ‘wobbly’ Millennium Bridge
illustrated to Sturgess’s team that the correct level would “get the hairs on the back of your neck up,” without being too scary. As part of the group that experienced this wobble factor first hand at the official opening, I can confirm that it’s spot- on for the more nervous skywalker, with barely discernable movement even when one over-enthusiastic tester decided to jump up and down
11 September 2014 —
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