Head for heights

[RichardKB]

Do not watch if you don't like heights.


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

Rich

[wookey]

Ah yes - that's a very fine walk. It really is quite exciting if you start from the bottom end. One of the people I went with did a handstand on the bridge part way along, which really is just silly :-)

It's amazing how fine the countryside just a few km inland of Malaga is (given how grim the coast is). Cueva de Nerja, El Torcal national park, and some world-class climbing and potholing if you like that sort of thing.

[wyleu]

Lovely...

[Ted]

I think I've got a pretty good head for heights but all that crumbly concrete would certainly not be for me.

Anyone know what the sluice gate is for?

[Ivan]

Something told me that Wookey had probably been there!

It looks like the camera man isn't bothering with any kind of safety tether. Are these people generally eliminated from the gene pool?

[wookey]

yeah, that is quite impressive. We did at least clip on for the first big hole in the floor and muttered and gibbered quite a lot at the various missing bits and holes. It's funny though - it's really quite disturbing on the way there (where the drop starts at 250m and gets slowly less) but on the way back (where it starts at about 10m and slowly increases) you hardly notice and walk happily along most of it, wondering what the big deal was.

Nochanantly sauntering down the edge rail whilst videoing is pretty hard-core though. I guess he's done it quite a few times...

[Ivan]

I assumed at first, that it was filmed from a helmet-cam type arrangement, but looking carefully, it seems, from his shadow, as if he's holding a camera in his hands.

I assume more than a few people have fallen off.

Reminds me of bad dreams 

[wookey]

It looks from the video as if it's gained a traverse line all the way along now. I was there circa 1995 and there was only a line on the first section where the whole walkway is missing apart from the edge rail. And it looks like it's gained at least one more large hole as there is a second bit with only the edge-rail left, and I only remember one of those. The holes in the floor are made by falling rocks (it's 200-odd metres straight up too - popular with people who like their climbing to be E2 or harder) and they just punch straight through occasionally.

I don't know of people falling off, (the tricky start is a good numpty-filter) but there used to be a cable-way all the way across down which the brave/foolish could slide to the other side of the canyon. That was still there but _very_ dodgy-looking in 1995, so we declined. I heard that it finally snapped/came out of the wall a couple of years later killing an optimist.

Remarkable place. I am disappointed to read that that walk is now banned, with a 30,000 euro fine - that seems a bit mean.

[kristen]

When I watched it I was thinking more about the people who built it in the first place!