Via Ferrata

Post by **SCIN** » Mon May 19, 2008 9:52 pm

This is very scary. Please watch.
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562

It's a video of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminito_del_Rey

Post by **Myke Dronez** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:41 pm

I wonder how many people died building that thing.

Post by **DriskellHR** » Tue May 20, 2008 8:24 am

looks like it was built during the war!!!

Post by **Saxman** » Tue May 20, 2008 9:07 am

"After four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000, the local government closed the entrances; however, adventurous tourists still find their way into the walkway."

Yup, that's us.

Post by **Rags** » Tue May 20, 2008 9:58 am

that's very cool. what a video, eh? sickness.

Post by **pigsteak** » Tue May 20, 2008 10:23 am

sa-weet.....

Post by **maine** » Tue May 20, 2008 11:05 am

Nice video SCIN!

Post by **ReachHigh** » Tue May 20, 2008 11:48 am

Oddly I got an email today about one in china.

http://www.canyoneeringusa.com/group/vfchina.htm

Post by **the lurkist** » Wed May 21, 2008 3:43 pm

I was in El Chorro in 94 for 2 weeks. We would get drunk most nights at the train station bar and then walk the walkway back to the orange grove (just ahead and down hill from where the video stops), sometimes carrying firewood.
It was either walk the walkway or walk the train tracks through two very long tunnels (pitch black) with the very real possibility of meeting a train while in the tunnels and having to jump of the tracks and take your pack off and press yourself up flat to the wall of the tunnel and have the train whizz by less than three feet away. That was a rush!

The walk way looks a lot worse now.

Post by **Yasmeen** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:14 pm

Wow. If that doesn't keep the gumbies away, I don't know what will.

\one of the gumbies that it is keeping away