May 16, 2008
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Bruce, this is NOT on my "go somewhere" list!!!
From Wikipedia if anyone is interested in going. Hub says he is not interested because there is not enough green for him to make it enjoyable.
El Caminito del Rey (English: The King's pathway) is a walkway or via ferrata, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in Málaga, Spain. The name is often shortened to El Camino del Rey.
In 1901 it was obvious that the workers of the Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls needed a walkway to cross between the falls, to provide transport of materials, vigilance and maintenance of the channel. Construction of the walkway took four years; it was finished in 1905.
In 1921 the king Alfonso XIII crossed the walkway for the inauguration of the dam Conde del Guadalhorce and it became known by its present name.
The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is one meter (3 feet) in width, and is over 200 meters (700 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 the path. One can latch onto the wire to keep from falling. Many 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 into the walkway.
Comments (5)
That's pretty awesome! x3
I think I was fine until he decided to do the balance beam without a handhold or cliff wall to balance on there at the end. =P No thankee!
God bless,
~Scott
Gulp!
I wimped out at about 5 minutes in. The holes through the walkway were enough for me.
=)
Old Hat
@gelatinemonkey - I think this highway needs another lane and don't think I would attempt this without it. AUGHHhhhnnn~~~... splat.
@My_HAT_is_older_than_you - You survived five minutes? You must have been LaMaze breathing. It would help you all the way down, too, until you "get there" and then you would reach a permanent solution to all pain forever!
Nice graphiti (sp?) at 3:11 into the show. We were there!
@revsteve - Thought I recognized the handwriting on the wall!!
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