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Title: Incredible walkaway Post by: Solideo on 13 May 2010, 08:28:28 Camino or Caminito del Rey placed in el Chorro (Málaga-Spain)
El Camino del Rey [High Quality] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw&feature=related#lq-lq2-hq-vhq) Title: Re: Incredible walkaway Post by: Koen on 13 May 2010, 11:47:43 scary :-\
Title: Re: Incredible walkaway Post by: FACman on 13 May 2010, 15:35:09 At 6:10 in the vid you can see where Solideo signed his name...
Title: Re: Incredible walkaway Post by: Jilly on 13 May 2010, 17:21:38 Really is incredible! I got goosebumps just looking at it, maybe due to my fear of heights? Amazing.
Title: Re: Incredible walkaway Post by: stoffel on 13 May 2010, 18:42:27 What is the purpose of those walkways?
Who made them and why are they in such a bad state now?? Title: Re: Incredible walkaway Post by: Rattler on 13 May 2010, 23:08:51 If I got it right this was a path for workers of the first "Water-Electric Company" in Spain to bring in materials for - then new - electricity production dam construction through a waterfall at around 100 mtrs height (way faster than to descend and cross it at the bottom), AFAIK it dates back to the very first years of the 20th century (Solideo, correct me?).
I seem to recall from news paper articles that around the late ´90s some excursionists who used it (as passing it had become cult) plunged to their deaths, the path then was closed by blowing up its first 10 metres within the rocks (so the vid should be from before this date). Here a picture (with the path disconnected already) that shows the path from the ground (and JFTR, I think the video has it wrong, it is called "El caminito del Rey"): (http://www.warandtactics.com/Images/caminito.jpg) Rattler Title: Re: Incredible walkaway Post by: the_13th_redneck on 14 May 2010, 01:41:15 Absolutely amazing!
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