Insane Hiking trail. NO FEAR!!! - Video

Wow. Watch this in HD and full screen. (Video at the bottom) Pretty cool ruins starting around 1.5 minutes in. Can't imagine what it took to build this stuff back in the day.

Here's some info I got from the net:

The works on what was soon to become the most dangerous walkway in the world started in 1901 when the Gaitanejo Falls and Chorro Falls hydroelectric power plants got to a need of a walkway that would bridge both plants and would allow for transportation of material. It took four years (1905) for the construction workers, who are believed to have been of Asian descent, rather than Spanish, to finalize the walkway.
The inauguration of the walkway did not take place until 1921 when Spanish King Alfonso XIII crossed it and the walkway’s been called The King’s Pathway (or El Caminito del Rey in Spanish) since.
By the beginning of 21st century, El Caminito del Rey has deteriorated to a point that it was highly dangerous to walk on it. Many parts of the walkway had collapsed leaving open holes on an already narrow passage without railings. This has however turned El Caminito del Rey into an extreme vacations attraction and crossing the whole of it was like an adrenaline sport for tourists looking to face danger.




El Caminito del Rey Death Toll

There is a wire pinned into the wall that follows most of the walkway and can be used by people to latch onto as safety precaution, but it was not designated to carry much weight. The walkway was closed off in 2000 after 4 people died on it within a span of two years. Many however find the way to get on El Caminito del Rey and get themselves the rush of walking on the most dangerous pathway in the world.






Hodakaguy

Thought I had seen that before. This video was much longer and had more of the walkway in it. Sweet. I liked the end, to bad they didn't show a little more of it.

holy sheeeit!!, is it open to motorcycles??

What a piece a work!!! Thankyou for sharing this with us. Im going to check into this a little more, Id like to see this myself....