Sunday, May 15, 2016
The longest stairway is listed by Guinness Book of Records as the
service stairway for the Niesenbahn funicular railway near Spiez,
Switzerland, with 11,674 steps and a height of 1,669 m (5,476 ft).[23]
The stairs are usually employee-only, but there is a public run called
"Niesenlauf" once a year.A flight of 7,200 steps (including inner temple
Steps), with 6,293 Official Mountain Walkway Steps, leads up the East
Peak of Mount Tai in China.The Haʻiku Stairs, on the island of Oʻahu,
Hawaiʻi, are approximately 4,000 steps which climb nearly 1⁄2 mile (0.8
km). Originally used to access longwire radio radio antennas which were
strung high above the Haʻiku Valley, between Honolulu and Kaneʻohe, they
are closed to hikers.The Flørli stairs, in Lysefjorden, Norway, have
4,444 wooden steps which climb from sea level to 740 metres (2,428
feet). It is a maintenance stairway for the water pipeline to the old
Flørli hydro plant. The hydro plant is now closed down, and the stairs
are open to the public. The stairway is claimed to be the longest wooden
stairway in the world.[24]The CN Tower's staircase reaches the main
deck level after 1,776 steps and the Sky Pod above after 2,579 steps; it
is the tallest metal staircase on Earth.The Penrose stairs, devised by
Lionel and Roger Penrose, are a famous impossible object. The image
distorts perspective in such a manner that the stairs appear to be
never-ending, a physical impossibility. The image was adopted by M. C.
Escher in his iconic lithograph Ascending and Descending.The World Trade
Center Survivors' Staircase is the last visible structure above ground
level at the World Trade Center site. It was originally two outdoor
flights of granite-clad stairs and an escalator that connected Vesey
Street to the World Trade Center's Austin J. Tobin Plaza. During the
September 11, 2001, attacks, the stairs served as an escape route for
hundreds of evacuees from 5 World Trade Center, a 9-floor building
adjacent to the 110-story towers.Stairwell A was the lone stairway left
intact after the second plane hit the South Tower of the World Trade
Center during the September 11 attacks. It was believed to have remained
intact until the South Tower collapsed at 9:59 am. 14 people were able
to escape the floors located at the impact zone (including one man who
saw the plane coming at him), and 4 people from the floors above the
impact zone. Numerous 911 operators who received calls from individuals
inside the South Tower were not well informed of the situation as it
rapidly unfolded in the South Tower. Many operators told callers not to
descend the tower on their own, even though it is now believed that
Stairwell A was most likely passable at and above the point of
impact.[25]In London, England a notable staircase is that to The
Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known simply as "the
Monument". This is a column in the City of London, near the northern
end of London Bridge, which commemorates the Great Fire of London. The
top of the Monument is reached by a narrow winding staircase of 311
steps. Constructed between 1671 and 1677, it is the tallest isolated
stone column in the world.[26]The Spanish Steps in Rome are a monument
of late Italian Baroque architecture connecting the Piazza di Spagna
with the Trinità dei Monti up the side of the Pincian Hill. Designed by
Francesco De Sanctis and constructed 1723–1725, the 135 steps form a
wide vista looking down toward the Tiber. The steps are adorned with
garden terraces blooming with azaleas and have been widely celebrated in
cultural work.The Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico is well known
for its helix-shaped spiral staircase, which has been nicknamed
"Miraculous Stair". It has been the subject of legend and rumor, and the
circumstances surrounding its construction and its builder are
considered miraculous by the Sisters of Loretto and many visitors.
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