worlds scariest hiking trail

[firecrest]

I just watching this from start to finish, and I must say it would have me quivering on the floor.
I could NOT hike this trail, its a path created on cliffs in Spain in 1905 for hydrolics workers. Given that its such a frightning road, its surprising just how many hikers are on it. Anybody fancy a trip there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W09MhqpdMoM

 

[loz.]

Thanks,

I feel quite ill now....................

 

[sapper1]

Not even in my wildest dreams.

 

[Stuart69]

The drop off the edge is enough to make me go all wobbly, then there's the collapses and the balancing on the beams

Would still love to go there though

 

[jojo]

Not the slightest chance!!:yikes: I vaguely seem to remember it was used during the war for people escaping from France. The authorities have prohibited its use, but that does not stop people, they still do, and some die each year doing it. Must be some view though!

 

[dwardo]

NO CHANCE !

I get dizzy on thick carpet..

 

[TeeDee]

The madness of the Health & Safety Police has clearly not reached this part of Spain yet...

 

[philaw]

My first thought was that it looks awesome, then I saw the holes in the path and changed my mind, and THEN the guy walks on nothing but a tiny metal bar...

 

[xylaria]

One of the comments left on you tube says the path was closed by the government 10 years ago BTW. Scary stuff, I would of turned back at the first hole in floor, alpine rope or not.

Whats the dangerous path you have ever been on, without intending to be on it?

Mine is it a toss up between the coastal path (now rebuilt) west of polperro in cornwall, wet mud on a 45degree path with cliff and jagged rocks below and even wetter steeper grass above. I was 10 years my mother was too arrogant to turn back and the only reason i still have a living sister is that I grabbed her when she slipped and I shoved my hand down a rabbit hole to grip, and my brother was strong enough to pull us both up. The other was out of the west window of Thors cave in the peak district, is what looks like a well trodden path. It is isn't, it a climbing route and even climbers say the lower part is an unpassable muddy scree, i had enough sense not to go down to far before realising. I dropped a daysack off the edge, it was found in the river a hundred foot below.

 

[East Coaster]

looks great. I think these things always look worse than they actually are. It's more or less a path (albeit quite a unique one!) They're all hooked up with a trailing wire as well which would give a sense of security. Mind you I wouldn't have fancied building the thing!!! Anyone here done the Aonach Eagach in Glencoe? I thought that was a bit scary, lots of unsecured climbing up and down over precipitous drops but very exhilirating all the same.

 

[Shewie]

When the clip first came out we had on in the office on the projector, it was superb watching it in real scale with the music pumping out.

Great clip Lindz, thanks for finding it again

 

[HillBill]

Nice.The buzz would be fantastic.
Things do look worse on camera than they do in reality. It looks to be a bit of a hair raiser though

 

[Mesquite]

I'll do it when they finish renovating it As it is like that No Way Jose

 

[Peterlee_Paddler]

'tis the Camino de Santiago, even in the places that it is 'via ferrata', it is still very scary. I'm fairly sure that the French call it 'camino frances', though I'm prepared to be corrected on that one.
Someone above mentioned 'looks great. I think these things always look worse than they actually are'. No mate, IT IS as scary as it looks. I've also 'done' the Aonach Eagach Ridge (I'll raise you the CMD Arete and throw in Crib Goch in Winter for a laugh )
The thin metal bar that someone above mentioned is also Via Ferrated, but still, just you try that without bricking it!
As mentioned, it is 'illegal' now, but still do-able (easier if you are skinny). It's one of those things in life that has me holding my breath all these years on.
I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

 

[Weeze]

This is actually part hike, part Via Ferrate, which means metal road. As mentioned by East Coaster these roads were developed during world war 1 in Italy by resistance workers who used them to get around the mountains. There is a pretty famous one in spain not far from Malaga which follows a canyon, not sure of it's name.

It is actually great fun and has become developed into a sport in Europe. There are varying grades from Easy to Sport, where you need considerable climbing skill. the metal road is the metal wire you see strung along the rock face and you attach yourself to this with carabiners attached to a climbing harness.
Have fun!

Weeze

 

[Barney]

I leaned into the cliff face the whole way round

 

[Pantalaimon]

damn exciting! Looks a bit like a videogame too.

 

[Hobbit on a String]

Thanks, just barfed my nightly snack, urgghhh, feel like i have a hangover from watching that clip, dont mind the height or the holes, but walking over those metal rods, nahhhhh

think i am going to crawl into my hobbit hole for a think about that run, nah, think i will go have a malt instead,

 

[Sniper]

woooooaaah! No fear not in a million years would I go anywhere near that except in a helicopter, I'm sat holding onto my chair watching that.

 

[stevesteve]

Serious cohones (sp?) to do that one. Not for me!

My father is a retired civil engineer... the phrase "structural integrity" springs to mind!

Cheers,
Steve