The path may be treacherous

[SUBMAN1]

Something tells me this path may not be entirely safe. Watch it to the end. Its worth it. My blood pressure would rise if I walked it, and even watching the video I worry about the camera man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaeQykTZRHw&feature=related

-S

[breadcatcher101]

Yikes!!

No way would I be in that place.

[SUBMAN1]

Yikes!!

No way would I be in that place.

My sentiments exactly.

-S

[Task Force]

:hmm:that's one crazy walkway.:lol: (nice scenery though.)

[jumpy]

Half Life 1, anyone? :p

Have seen this before... but it still make my toes curl at the thought of it. I find myself leaning away from the edge with a wibbly feeling in my stomach :oops: :p

[A Very Super Market]

I've been on ridges before, but that path just looks like trouble. Scary stuff what our forefathers went through daily.

[nikimcbee]

WTH!

where is that located? and who got stuck building that path? Talk about the job from hell. That just made me dizzy watching that:o .

I wonder how many people died building that?

[nikimcbee]

here, try this on for size!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5lhnr0DM04

[Task Force]

more than 10, i am sure lol.:lol:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Screw that! My stomach turned at the parts where he was balancing across a beam :dead:

[Oberon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminito_del_Rey

[nikimcbee]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminito_del_Rey

wow, where do i sign up to work there?

[Oberon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminito_del_Rey

wow, where do i sign up to work there?


Here:

http://www.themartlets.org.uk/about/gallery/Last-Will.jpg

[She-Wolf]

here, try this on for size!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5lhnr0DM04

the high path is foolishness but our camera man survived - but did this biker? Awful.

[XabbaRus]

Cool I'd do it.

[Jimbuna]

Gave me a nose bleed just watching it http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/img231/1076/shockedvi8.gif

[Wolfehunter]

What was that area? Its falling apart but jezz whats the point of going there when your playing with chance? Unless you want to die.. :nope:

[porphy]

Looks like good fun. Two of my friends went there a year ago and found it interesting indeed. A nice steel wire to clip into along the way by the looks of it, no need to die by falling of. A sort of via ferrata :up:

cheers Porphy

[SUBMAN1]

What was that area? Its falling apart but jezz whats the point of going there when your playing with chance? Unless you want to die.. :nope:

It may be more to live, than it is to die.

-S

[SUBMAN1]

Looks like good fun. Two of my friends went there a year ago and found it interesting indeed. A nice steel wire to clip into along the way by the looks of it, no need to die by falling of. A sort of via ferrata :up:

cheers Porphy

The wire is not near the balancing beams. The wire is actually only part of the way through. Most places have no wire.

-S

[porphy]

Looks like good fun. Two of my friends went there a year ago and found it interesting indeed. A nice steel wire to clip into along the way by the looks of it, no need to die by falling of. A sort of via ferrata :up:

cheers Porphy
The wire is not near the balancing beams. The wire is actually only part of the way through. Most places have no wire.

-S
That's true in part. It doesn't go uninterrupted from start to the end. But you can see the wire in almost the whole video clip, even at the balancing beams. Except on one occasion near the end, but I think this place have a wire or rope put in as well. Other clips of el Camino del rey shows this in plain view. You certainly need a long sling to extend from your harness in those places, as the wire is rather far of and high up.

Still, as my friends told me, the wire isn't reliable as it is worn out in places, and the anchors put in the rock are dubious as well. So it shouldn't be trusted or used forcefully as a tight rope or tension rope aid. It's still serious business, but not without some protection, unless you decide to go without a harness of course...

It would have been cool if the video showed the end of the path where you apparently can walk out on a free hanging ledge and abseil of, down to the ground! Or if you want to, you can climb out of the gorge through one of the many rock climbing routes situated above (and below) the path.

At the moment the place is of limits, but people go there anyway, both to do the kings pathway and to rockclimb. You can get caught and seriously fined if the police find you in one of the railway tunnels leading to the place. All in all, a good adventure not to be missed if you visit el Chorro. I will most certainly go there if my climbing mates go back this or next year. :yep:

cheers porphy