You really wouldn’t want to be part of this two-hour queue caused by congestion
We’ve all suffered from congestion at some point, but nothing quite as extreme as these tourists in China.
If you are scared of heights look away now because this video footage captures the moment hundreds of tourists were left clinging on a rock face for up to two hours.
The people were left stranded not knowing when they would start moving again after the line suddenly stopped in Zhejiang Province, China.
A man sent a worried message to his wife alongside a video that showed the dangerous pile up.
While it is not clear how high up the people were, the mountain is 3,773ft high – so the climbing route is not for the faint-hearted.
The back up was caused by too many people climbing on the same route, according to managers at the Yandang Mountain rock climbing attraction.
The May Day holiday takes place in China from May 1 to May 5 and this is why there were an unusually high number of tourists at the climbing site.
Officials sorted the queue by restricting the amount of people who were allowed to join.
They said anyone who wanted to escape the pile up could abseil down with a professional, but this came at a cost so many decided to stay put.
The officials explained that the charge is applied because many people don’t complete the track and ask to abseil down ‘because it was fun’.
The bottleneck was finally cleared after about two hours.
Attraction managers Wenzhou Dingcheng Sports Development Co., Ltd said in a statement: ‘Due to our misjudgment of how many customers would come, the lack of effective traffic controls such as a ticket reservation system, and shortcomings in onsite management, customers were blocked and trapped on the climbing route.’
Tickets have temporarily been suspended while the company deal with the matter internally.
A traffic-control system for visitors will soon be implement, it confirmed.
People were quick to respond to the video which was posted on social media.
Qiuxi Xi Shengchun said: ‘This is very dangerous. If the plank road cannot bear the weight due to the large number of people, the consequences will be serious. Hope it attracts attention.’
Xiaoxiaosheng said: ‘The first one was probably so frightened that he refused to move on.’
User 4893216 said: ‘People who don’t have heart disease will develop heart disease.’
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