It's not so much the path which is scary, but the notion that the only way up to the monasteries used to be by a bucket on a rope! Yikes!
Posted on 11/24/2008 12:21:50 AM PST by JoeProBono
Originally built in 1901, this walkway, called El Camino del Rey, now serves as an aproach to Makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro in Spain's Andalucia. And it makes the hairiest paths we've ever walked look bald by comparison!
Looks as if the path was replaced by a road and tunnel through the mountain. Now it’s just experienced climbers using the path. I noticed the one guy making sure his carrabiner was attached to the wire rope.
I needed that first thing in the morning...I thought Precipice in Bar Harbor, Maine was intense.
It didn’t seem too bad until you get to the first rusty pipe.
That path (without the concrete, of course) has probably been there at least since the time of the Romans if not before. It does look as if something had been done in the last century or so to bring water down, but it’s possible that before that, the path was used as a shortcut by individuals sent up the hill for some work-related reason or by herders. I was in the Pyrennees once and saw a path like this, although it hadn’t been “improved” and was just a set of narrow shelves of rock, literally only a few inches wide, that ran into a deep valley - and there was a local calmly meandering along it.
I was wondering how many people they lost when they built this one! Pre-OSHA...
It's not so much the path which is scary, but the notion that the only way up to the monasteries used to be by a bucket on a rope! Yikes!
After a night of drinking scotch and capping it off with a few tequila shooters that is how the stairs to my apartment look.
My brother lives to walk on this kind of crap. Then again, when I was young, dumb, and allegedly bulletproof, I used to hang out of helicopters for fun.
Yikes. I noticed that I didn’t see any women on the path.
What’s with the goofy Techno-Euro Kennedy speech music?
That video made my toes curl.
That photographer gets my Big Brass Balls nomination for the month!
Hairs on the back of my neck went up.
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The rope wasn’t replaced until it broke!
No,no,no,like poster # 3 said, “that ain’t right” and I would hate to see what the construction guys went through to build this devils sidewalk.
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