China_Highway.ppt

百龙天梯 Bailong Elevator China – World’s Tallest Outdoor Elevator? 百龙天梯是连通张家界世界自然遗产的核心袁家界景区的重要交通设施，高326米，运行时间1分58秒。创造了“世界上最高、载重量最大、运行速度最快的全暴露户外观光电梯”三项吉尼斯世界记录。 If you suffer from a fear of heights, perhaps this ones not for you. The Bailong Elevator, also known as the Hundred Dragons Elevator, carries tourists 1,070ft (330m) up the side of a massive sandstone column in a mountain range in Chinas Hunan Province. Riding the glass lift, which carries up to 50 people at a time or 1,380 an hour, offers jaw-dropping, not to say vertiginous, views down to the bottom of the rocky mountain range in th