For many of the Skywalk visitors, the walk (with hands tightly clinched around the hand rails) over the glass bridge itself is a life-daring accomplishment. Many of the tourists view their rope access work as daring, even an added bonus to the Skywalk tour itself, asking many questions of the technicians while they perform the rigging and cleaning work. The team of five technicians will mobilize equipment and gear, and set up safety rigging to prepare two highly-trained technicians to ‘aid’ out on the underside of the Skywalk, suspended some 4,000 feet above the canyon floor, as thousands of tourists visiting from all over the world peer down at them as they work. This weeklong planning process will culminate in three fully loaded trucks making the 5-hour trek from Phoenix to the Grand Canyon Skywalk located on the Haulapai Indian Reservation in northern Arizona.Ībseilon Rope Access Technicians will arrive on site Sunday evening to begin final preparations for what’s to come at sunrise the next day: majestic views of the Grand Canyon, one of the seven natural wonders of the world, and The Skywalk, a transparent horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge walkway that projects well over the side of the canyon wall. Their nerves are beginning to set in as rope, harnesses and equipment are strategically laid out like a puzzle waiting to be assembled.

What does it take to prepare for a Skywalk cleaning?Įarly on a Sunday morning, members of an Abseilon USA team are finalizing their roles for the Skywalk cleaning project.

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