Native Americans have just created the ultimate no-no tourist attraction for persons suffering from acrophobia, the fear of heights.
The $30-million Grand Canyon Skywalk, a Plexiglas viewing structure projecting 70 feet from the 3,800-foot-high rim, allows unobstructed $25 side and down views of the national wonder from the Hualapai Indian Reservation.
Acrophobes represent 5-10 percent of the population, about the same percentage as homosexuals and bisexuals—not that there is anything wrong with that.
The altitude-challenged minority already faces architectural terrors such as external elevators, towers, domes, many amusement rides, wall-to-wall office windows, building-to-building pedestrian ramps and skyscraper balconies.
Just looking at pictures of the Skywalk sends tremors through an acrophobe’s knees. Ask TV detective Adrian Monk.
Stop the torture. If God intended for humans to defy gravity, He would not have created vertigo. (18 MARCH 2007)
