El camino del Rey

[annelise]

This is a different camino – El Camino del Rey (near Malaga). Do not watch the attachment if you are scared of heights (but the guy walking did it with a handheld camera!) – I nearly died watching it – had to tell myself all the time that if he had fallen, he would not have lived to tell. I guess that it beats most of the stretches of any Camino!

http://videosift.com/video/The-Walk-of- ... to-del-Rey

 

[Sagalouts]

oh my god :shock: I'm still shaking, my heart goes out to anyone walking that,but spare a thought for the guys who built it :!:
Ian

 

[Hedwig]

Aaaaaahhhhhhh, what a walk!
I think you definetely need the help from God to survive this

Wauw...

 

[Deleted member 3000]

El Caminito del Rey (English: The King's little 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 Camino del Rey.

The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is one meter (3 feet and 3 inches) in width, and is over 300 meters (984 feet) above the river. Nearly all of the path has no handrail. Some parts of the concrete walkway have completely collapsed and all that is remaining is the steel beam originally in place to hold it up and the wire that follows most of the path. One can latch onto a safety-wire to keep from falling. Several 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, many adventurous tourists still find their way onto the walkway to explore it.

 

[dutchpilgrim]

Yep,

Walked it.
But only half of it.
Just before the bridge there was that gap in the pathway, to be crossed over on a plank of some 30 cm wide.
That was my limit.
On my way back, I was looking for security by taking hold of my camera very tight.

Ultreya,
Carli Di Bortolo