Yikes!!!

[Kevy Baby]

This is probably more appropriate in the You Tube thread, but I found it very intoxicating to watch.

Originally built in 1901, this walkway now serves as an approach to Makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro.Watch the whole video (http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562%20+): it starts off slow but has some real butt-clenching moments.

Can you imagine being one of the people that created some of those holes?

[JWBear]

Hell no!

[Alex]

Well, with the clipline I wouldn't hesitate. But yeah, some of the free walking stuff I'd not do.

I wonder if he's considered a prick for intentionally standing right on the edges of holes since that just promotes making them bigger.

Pretty cool though. Reminded me of a level map in an FPS. Maybe from Half Life.

[Capt Jack]

:eek: um,yeah......no

[BarTopDancer]

Oh hell no.

Beautiful view though.

[€uroMeinke]

I thought there were way too many people to encounter on this trail for it too seem that remote or dangerous - needed some sun bleached bones and barbed wire.

[Not Afraid]

The trail seemed fine until I got to a hole. I got the whole tingly feet thing happening at that point and decided I wouldn't be able to do this. Sorry to disappoint.

[Deebs]

Nope.

No, thank you.

Not having a bit of that.

Yes, the views were nice; but not to-die-for kind of nice.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

I don't generally have much of a fear of heights but the end of that video made me clench up a few times. Wow.

[Morrigoon]

Yeah, that whole not putting rebar in the concrete thing... eesh.

I find it somewhat unbelievable that nobody's gone back to do some repair work. I mean, sure the path would be less exciting, but given that some sections are just flat out not there, I'd think the risk kinda too great.

Also video boy here didn't seem to be doing the carabiner thing like some of the people he encountered along the trail. Oh, and crossing the pole sections while still carrying a fvcking camera!

Not ME!!!

[sleepyjeff]

I think I'd rather do that swim on the edge of Victoria Falls than this.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Looks fun! :D

[lashbear]

The trail seemed fine until I got to a hole. I got the whole tingly feet thing happening at that point and decided I wouldn't be able to do this. Sorry to disappoint.
The Stoat says that as soon as he got to the holes, he'd slip in his own doo-doo. :eek:

He hates heights when he isn't strapped into a runaway elevator.

I don't think this will be on our holiday plans anytime soon. :blush:

[Strangler Lewis]

I think he was clipped. Sometimes the wire would come into view, and it would be moving.

Me, I'll pass.

[Snowflake]

:eek: Not me!

Great find, Kevy.

I'd love to see some old creaky film of this being constructed! Scary!

[Alex]

I think he was clipped. Sometimes the wire would come into view, and it would be moving.

Me, I'll pass.

He may have been clipped at points (though done stealthily) but there is a point where he passes a clipped person in a way that strikes me as unlikely he was himself clipped.

And I've known some freeclimbers who wouldn't hesitate to do what he was doing without any safety equipment. They'd probably hold races to see who could get to the top fastest. With shoving allowed.

[CoasterMatt]

Looks like a fun route.

[Gemini Cricket]

Pssh.
Totally fake.
He Photoshopped himself in.
You know, moving Photoshop?
One big giant gif?





I would totally hike there tomorrow.


:D



I would never, ever hike there.
Even with the chance of meeting hot hikers on the way.

How did he shoot this? How can you cross those rusty balance beams while shooting?


Wow.
Major butt-clenching vertigotastic action there, KevyBaby. I don't know how you shot that footage...




I did just think of a good idea for this trail. I'd send all my clumsy enemies to hike it.
:D

[Kevy Baby]

A coworker and I were discussing this and thought it would have been hilarious if at the end, he dropped the camera at a particularly hairy point. Dropped in such a way that you thought it was the photographer taking a dive. But then retrieving the tape might be a bit of a bugger (I would SO pay for a camera to pull it off though!).

[Snowflake]

This has been the hit video of my office today.

Most reactions are NO!-Effin-Way! and a few lone voices, Wow, I'm so there!

[lashbear]

A coworker and I were discussing this and thought it would have been hilarious if at the end, he dropped the camera at a particularly hairy point. Dropped in such a way that you thought it was the photographer taking a dive.
I thought of this as well. A camera on a bungy cord would do it.

[innerSpaceman]

Hahah, that would have been cool.


I'd hike this trail in a (rapidly beating) heartbeat ... if it wasn't halfway around the world. Only the parts with the cable though. None of this rebar walking. Uh-uh.