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June 27, 2008
El Caminito del Rey (The King's Pathway) — Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Jerry Young, who last evening sent me a link to this video, wrote, "Someone sent me this video yesterday. I don't know who to forward it to so I guess I will send it to you. There is a full screen button on the video (to the left of the speaker symbol above). That is the way you want to watch this. I rather enjoyed it, but there is a balancing act near the end that makes one wonder about the sanity of the filmmaker."
Accompanying the video was this from "Pete": " El Caminito del Rey (The King's Pathway) is a walkway, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in Málaga, Spain. The walkway has gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is only one meter in width above a 700-meter fall, and over time it has also lost its handrail. Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall.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 onto the walkway. The view and the music are almost like being in a video game ... very cool!
"Oh yes ... once you get to the website and click the "Play" button — you must go full screen!!"
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Girlfriend: Enrico, who do you think you're kidding? You never walked the Camino del Rey, liarface!
Enrico: I did.
Girlfriend: You are two times the liar my ex-boyfriend was, and that's going some.
Enrice: Ok woman, hand me the videocamera. Now.
Cudos to the sure-footed young man who carried us all on his back through El Chorro. Personally, i found it exhilarating.
Posted by: anan | Jun 29, 2008 12:59:08 AM
I watched this an hour ago and am still scared. I think places like this canyon are why they make choppers and train pilots. I would love to see this place, but there is no way I could dance over those rails like this dude did.
Posted by: No Man | Jun 27, 2008 6:02:03 PM
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