Unreal hiking trail

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Unreal hiking trail

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Where is that?
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that i would love to know too. man i would love to walk it.
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Found out on the posts below the video
"It is the Caminito del Rey (The King's little pathway) in El Choro, Spain"


And from Wiki:
In 1901 it became obvious that workers at the hydroelectric power plants at Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls needed a walkway to cross between the falls, to provide for transport of materials, and for the inspection and maintenance of the channel. Construction of the walkway took four years and it was finished in 1905.

In 1921 King Alfonso XIII crossed the walkway for the inauguration of the dam Conde del Guadalhorce and it became known by its present name.


In some places the walkway has collapsed.The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is one meter (3 feet and 3 inches) in width, and is over 300 meters (984 feet) above the river. Nearly all of the path has no handrail. Some parts of the concrete walkway have completely collapsed and all that is remaining is the steel beam originally in place to hold it up and the wire that follows most of the path. One can latch onto a safety-wire to keep from falling. Several people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years; after four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000, the local government closed the entrances. However, adventurous tourists still find their way onto the walkway to explore
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red-devil wrote:that i would love to know too. man i would love to walk it.


Would be a great rush of adrenilin :twisted: Real danger. even the most extreme rollercoaster rides do nothing 4 me as you know your safe. Now i know its in spain which is $200 flight from here may go there meself take my own video and post it :D

Things never look quite so bad on videos as they are in real life.
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just found this link with pics of the trail.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabirulo/138278746/in/photostream/
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Notice in the video, the guy wasn't using the safety wire :shock: Be great to walk at least part of it 8)
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