11 of the world's most dangerous hiking trails

CNN ^ | 14th July 2022 | Joe Minihane,

[Antihero101607]

Damn you!

;)

[MtnClimber]

Ha, none of these come even close to climbing the Eiger in Switzerland. At the end of winter conditions in July of 1992 (I think) the ice fall and rock fall were terrible. I had a falling rock clip the fabric on the right shoulder of my parka, but did not touch me. It sounded like a bee going past. Our group of four were the first to summit that year with winter conditions lasting later than normal. Not close to the highest mountain I have climbed, but certainly the most dangerous. I would not do it again!

[dangus]

Mount WASHINGTON?

They don’t mention the only reason I could imagine for its inclusion: It was formerly believed to be the windiest place on Earth.

[dangus]

I think I had one of Camino del Rey’s albums...

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Pretty. But gravity pulls way too hard on me for my size 13 EEEE’s to ever touch that path.

[Joe Brower]

" Tragically, Daniel, aged only 35, lost his life on the Arwa Spire, on May 11, 2011 only 2-1/2 years after this was filmed."

[Travis McGee]

You survived The Eiger Sanction, way cool!

Image I found copied from the 1975 Clint Eastwood movie:

[Travis McGee]

He was not made for longevity, that’s for sure.

[Hot Tabasco]

El Camino del Rey [High Quality]

That's the one I was thinking about. I had to hang on to the arms of my chair just to watch it......

[MtnClimber]

Yep. I climbed the Eiger in 1992. That photo from the movie is on the Eiger, but nowhere close to the route.

[Hot Tabasco]

Reading the comments, apparently the guy who made that video died two years later on a climb somewhere...

[Travis McGee]

The ladder scaffold appears to be for a movie camera for a closeup.

Was the route somewhere in the background on the vertical face?

[MtnClimber]

Here is the route:

It looks like the ladder is at the top of the prominent step on the ridge on the right side. That is on the descent route.

There is a cog railroad that goes through the Eiger, through the Monch behind it and emerges at the summit of the Jungfrau for tourists to get a view from the top. I am sure there must be some legend behind the names of these three mountains whose names mean The Ogre, The Monk and The Young Girl.

[MtnClimber]

Another view of the route from greater distance:

[pax_et_bonum]

That would be a No.

[Travis McGee]

I’ll bet you weren’t wearing flip-flops.

[MtnClimber]

I’ll bet you weren’t wearing flip-flops. No. I just checked the summit photo and I wore Asolo double plastic mountaineering boots with clip-on 12-point crampons. We kept crampons on the whole time, even on the rock sections, because the snow and ice sections were so frequent that it was too much trouble and risk to take them off and put them back on. The risk was dopping them, because then you would truly be up the creek. Crampons on rock is like fingernails on a chalk board.