This Terrifying 300 Metre Glass ‘Skyslide’ Is Not For The Faint Hearted

Would you ride an all-glass slide positioned 1,000 feet above Los Angeles on the side of a skyscraper?

Let me introduce you to Skyslide, a new attraction that just opened in LA.

Reporter Amanda Lee Myers described her experience: “I’ve jumped out of a plane from 13,000 feet. I’ve ridden 400-foot-tall roller coasters… Heights have never fazed me. Until the Skyslide.”

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A member of the media rides down a glass slide during a media preview at the U.S. Bank Tower building in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, June 23, 2016. Starting this weekend, thrill-seekers can begin taking the Skyslide, a 1,000 feet high slide, perched on the outside of the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

A member of the media rides the Skyslide from the 70th to 69th floor of the U.S. Bank Tower which is attached to the OUE Skyspace LA observation deck in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 23, 2016. REUTERS/Bob Riha, Jr.

People slide down the Skyslide, a 45-foot (13.7-meter) glass slide 70 floors up on the outside of the US Bank Tower, on June 23, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, during a preview the opening of the attraction. / AFP / DAVID MCNEW (Photo credit should read DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)

A member of the media rides the Skyslide from the 70th to 69th floor of the U.S. Bank Tower which is attached to the OUE Skyspace LA observation deck in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 23, 2016. REUTERS/Bob Riha, Jr.
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Dominic Sawyer

Dominic has been writing on the web since 2000. He has a BSc (Hons) degree in Biological Sciences from Nottingham University and his research thesis has been published in journals. With a foundation in painstaking research he found his passion for travel and has worked in the sector for 20 years. He has written a book about travel and has extended his expertise to consumer research across the travel and leisure sector.