The walk to work is just getting too difficult

[SCone]

Check this out...

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562

[AndrewCCM]

Good Gosh!

[onewingedangel73106]

wow I had to stop halfway through vertigo and nausea were getting to bad lol

[Arnor]

Holy... something!!! I'm still pulling my heart out of my shoes!<g>

I kept thinking no way, now way in heck would I do this, EVER! And then I'd think, WOW think about the photos!<bg>

Thanks for sharing:)

Best regards,

[arcproducts]

OMG - - - I don't like heights ... and I can't figure out how I was able to watch the whole 6 minutes. Totally insane. The Whole Thing. Makes you wonder about alot of things.......

like,

who built it and why?,
how many people didn't make it back,
how did they get equipment and concrete up there?,
where are the bathrooms?
or is that what those holes in the walkways are for?,
and finally,
for pete's sake HOW DID YOU FIND THIS VIDEO ?????

[swanny338]

I wanna do it.

[J Eddington]

And there was a human traffic along the way. Then I really wondered why...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.

History

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 lasted four years. It was finished in 1905.

In 1921 the king Alfonso XIII had to cross the walkway for the inauguration of the dam Conde del Guadalhorce, and it became known by its present name.
In some places the walkway has collapsed
In some places the walkway has collapsed

The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is one meter (3 ft) in width, and is over 700 feet (200 m) above the river. Nearly all of the path has no handrail. Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and have been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall. 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.

The regional government of Andalusia budgeted in 2006 for a restoration plan[1] estimated at € 7 million.