Feeling the vertigo? Steer clear of this Facebook group, dubbed Death Stairs where thousands of people post pictures of the “most dangerous stairs on Earth”.
The unnerving series of snaps is enough to make anyone grip onto the bannister the next time they make a trip downstairs. Every year, just over a million people die from staircase-related accidents in the US according to the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. And looking at these stairs, you can see why. Each one is more deadly than the next, with some a sheer drop and others nightmarishly winding.
The comments underneath the pictures usually involve a stern warning from viewers. “If my grandmum lived here, I would install a chairlift [crying laughing face],” wrote one person underneath a picture of what appears to be domestic stairs.
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“If you fell off those you’d die instantly,” another person noted on a picture showing a narrow staircase creeping down a mountainside. “Please please please install a handrail.”
Someone else posted a picture of some hand-painted steps in Amsterdam which, while beautifully decorated, looked grimly steep.
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“I know it can be worst but this one is in my home in Amsterdam. 6 weeks ago did i missed the last 3 steps of this 100-year old staircase and broke my foot. Decided to give it a new paint. Me and the stairs are friends now again,” the person wrote.
“Gorgeous but where are the crampons for climbing it? I went flying on stairs like these and sprained an ankle,” someone wrote underneath.
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Rattled guests of a hotel recently claimed they had to stretch over “death stairs” at a London hotel that you should only stay at “if you aren’t afraid of heights and like a little danger”.
Photos were shared of St Athans Hotel in Camden where visitors have said they need to step over a dangerous drop just to go to the toilet.
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The images posted on Facebook and TripAdvisor from the Georgian townhouse show the gap between a third-floor room and a shared bathroom that one guest said required “acrobatic skills” to avoid falling down.
Its thin and twisting steps leading from each room join together before a steep drop of nine more follow down to the second floor. “Curtain rod-like” bannisters can be seen lining the wall to help visitors’ descents with Facebook users joking the assistance is handy to “avoid certain doom”.
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