MD Graduates Tackle Tower's Spiral Staircase in Duke Chapel

A few days before graduation, Duke Medical Alumni Association invited graduating MD students and their families to a uniquely Duke experience. Groups had the chance to climb the vertigo-inducing, stone steps - all 239 of them - up through the spiral staircase inside Duke Chapel's tower, leading all the way to the roof. The 360 degree view from the top of the 210-foot-tall, bell tower gives one can true sense of Duke being a campus in a forest.
Finished in 1935 and modeled after the Bell Harry Tower of Canterbury Cathedral, the Duke Chapel is one of the tallest buildings in Durham County and one of the tallest university chapels in the world.

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