The mountain, the cave translates as Heaven's Door /天门 has a 999 step entrance known as "the Stairway to Heaven."
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Gps Coordinates / 29.046809,110.482084
Tianmen Mountain Heavens Gate Mountain VR China
2FXJ+63F, Yongding District, Zhangjiajie, China, 427302
The Tianmenshan Temple is located on the summit, with chairlift or footpath access.
A 7 mile road - Tongtian Avenue - with 99 bends also reaches the top of the mountain and takes visitors to Tianmen cave natural arch in the mountain of a height of 431.4 feet.
Tourists can walk on kilometres of paths built along the cliff face at the top of the mountain, including sections with glass floors.
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The original temple there was built during the Tang dynasty and destroyed during the first part of the 20th century.
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In 1949, as the Chinese Communist Revolution neared its end, construction of a new temple, with Tang dynasty architecture, began - the temple now sits on landscaped grounds covering 2 hectares (4.9 acres).
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In 2007, Alain Robert scaled the cliff below the arch, bare-handed and without protection; a plaque commemorates his feat.
Wingsuit Death. On October 8, 2013, during a training jump for the second world championships, Viktor Kováts plunged to his death when he was unable to open his parachute.
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The World Wingsuit League held the first and second World Wingsuit Championships in Tianmen.
In April 2023, four people died in a group suicide on one of the skywalks at Tianmen Mountain.
Three men jumped to their deaths from the west line skywalk at a height of roughly 4,691.6 feet.
The fourth person, a woman, was stopped from jumping but had already swallowed poison, causing her death.
