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42 comments to "Caminito del Rey"
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MrPumpernickel
April 30th, 2008 at
8:50 am
Oh heck yes! I need to go there *starts planning for vacation next year*
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foosnark
April 30th, 2008 at
9:20 am
Argh… just watching this video is triggering my fear of falling (which also involves things like perfectly good bridges, walkways, storm drains, etc. crumbling away beneath me).
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Bunny
April 30th, 2008 at
9:28 am
Don’t you love the little stumble he takes right at the beginning? Gawd, I would have died from fright right then and there!
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Andrew G
April 30th, 2008 at
9:40 am
that’s pretty insane, especially how fast that guy is going while filming at the same time! i want to go there even though i’m afraid of heights :S
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Street Attack
April 30th, 2008 at
9:40 am
I had a mini panick attack watching that. I am not too bad wth heights at all. But as self proclaimd clutz those railingless small paths freak me out to no end.
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April 30th, 2008 at
10:11 am
He made it!
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jodie
April 30th, 2008 at
10:30 am
how in the heck did they get the materials to build that up there? not to mention how they used those materials to construct the paths. amazing.
also, the cameraman’s shadow looks like it’s floating. although i doubt that he really is.
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Rich
April 30th, 2008 at
10:45 am
Nice… I would have taken it slower if I hadn’t turned around at the first broken section.
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DanO
April 30th, 2008 at
11:27 am
pretty sure the video is sped up. also there are safety ropes available, (one hiker had a harness) but the camera man definitely did not use them.
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Alex
April 30th, 2008 at
11:30 am
That’s crazy! Did he use a hand-held camera to film this? I’d be crawling on all fours if I had to go up the little road!
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kid_icarus
April 30th, 2008 at
11:58 am
that is AWESOME!!!! sign me up for a trip there!
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Algonkin
April 30th, 2008 at
11:59 am
He did Alex. If you look closely to his shadows, you can see he’s holding it with his left hand.
That is one gutsy S.O.B.
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fsmarch
April 30th, 2008 at
12:15 pm
OMG! No way, Jose!
Especially stepping over the holes in the rotting concrete!
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L.C.
April 30th, 2008 at
12:58 pm
did anyone notice how he also walked on those poles??? holy hell. i would have died just lookin up at it from the ground!!
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World's Most Beautiful Girl
April 30th, 2008 at
2:06 pm
We are planning a trip there next year - we will definitely visit the area and navigate the paths
the serene beauty is so majestic - it just has to be experienced by those healthy and athletic enough to do so
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Christophe
April 30th, 2008 at
2:19 pm
Superb.
Glad he taped it so we don’t have to check ourselves.
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Parker
April 30th, 2008 at
2:37 pm
Even if you’re ealthy and athletic..you lose so much balance when your hands are busy with cameras! Does this guy talk about the experience anywhere?
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avraamov
April 30th, 2008 at
3:12 pm
in the words of steven wright, maybe he’s not scared of heights. just terrified of widths.
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Namowal
April 30th, 2008 at
5:36 pm
I love how he’s passing other hikers on this crumbling century old ledge and they’re greeting each other as casually as if they were on a sidewalk in the suburbs.
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Demonio Flatline
April 30th, 2008 at
5:47 pm
I live in Benalmadena, Malaga, In the same province where this video was taken. I have been there a couple of times and have walked some of it, but never went all the way… is just too frightening. Great video! And all of you that are interested in coming… do it! you will have the time of your life here in Spain!!! You will find adventure, nature, beaches, good weather, good food, party, beautiful women, and much more!
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Dan
April 30th, 2008 at
6:15 pm
Meh.
Try walking the Kalalau trail on Kauai’s Na Pali Coast. In the rain. With a 60 lb pack.
No cable to hold onto. No concrete to walk on.I keed.
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Martha Jones
April 30th, 2008 at
7:06 pm
That gave me motion sickness watching that.
Does anyone know what the music was on video?, I really like it.
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MrPumpernickel
April 30th, 2008 at
7:08 pm
Demonio, you forgot to mention that pretty much all of Costa del Sol has been touristized to hell. If you want to experience Spain that’s really not the place to go, although further inland in the same province, like where this gorge is, is another question.
I vacationed in Benalmadena a few years back, you seriously could not pay me to come back.
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Ivor Cutlery
April 30th, 2008 at
8:04 pm
Are the holes in the concrete the result of falling rocks or corrosion? I’m betting on the latter, but it definitely wouldn’t comfort me to look up the face of the gorge and fantasize about rockslides.
I wonder if the local government is following up on its plan to renovate the path; it’d be interesting to see a video of their progress…
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fsmarch
April 30th, 2008 at
9:58 pm
I wonder if they use blind people to renovate the path?
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petra
April 30th, 2008 at
10:57 pm
MOTHER. OF. GOD!!!!!!
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Chad Cloman
May 1st, 2008 at
12:12 am
^^^ What he said ^^^
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Adam Stanhope
May 1st, 2008 at
7:51 am
Best video in a long time, Algonkin!
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ted
May 1st, 2008 at
8:20 am
Nice railings.
Dude should have stopped more to look around. The best parts were when he was looking down at his feet to cross those narrow bits.He definitely only used the cables intermittently.
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Naz
May 1st, 2008 at
9:52 am
What a trip.
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fsmarch
May 1st, 2008 at
11:55 am
I wonder if he had a parachute suit on?
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Badjuk
May 1st, 2008 at
2:56 pm
Ja pikole! Nie wiedzailem o czyms takim 0_o
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Howard Brazee
May 1st, 2008 at
5:25 pm
Walking I could do, if I didn’t have my wife or grandkids with me.
But what amazes me is thinking about those who built it.
The question is - should they maintain the trail? Obviously it is used.
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astrodex
May 2nd, 2008 at
8:36 pm
Does the guy with the safety harness (wimp) really think those safety lines are better kept than the path? Which has holes in it?!
I almost wet myself right at the end when he jumps down off the little wall that is overlooking a zillion foot drop.
No way. Ever. Even for money.
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AndrewB
May 5th, 2008 at
7:20 pm
The cameraman took 6 min 26 secs to walk this section. Impressive, but in the interest of promoting insane extreme sports, let’s up the ante…can someone do the same route in under 6 mins?
(I’d volunteer, but, ahem, I am in Australia)
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Meff
May 8th, 2008 at
12:37 pm
As Martha Jones said:
Does anyone know what the music was on video?, I really like it.So, does anyone?
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Jx
May 15th, 2008 at
8:58 am
Looking to the movement of head shadow (as jodie noticed - it is like flowing), I suppose the clip was filmed by compact head-camera used also by climbers. The tiny camera (like webcam) attached next to ear follows the head direction and has no zoom option. Separate unit for recording is attached to the belt. See example at http://www.elmo.co.jp/suv-cam/en/product/suvcam_2.html
Guy has not camera but a stick in its left hand (it could be seen at ‘1:20).
But anyway, it’s amazing! -
rich
May 15th, 2008 at
11:27 am
maybe somebody knows what music plays in this video?
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dragdrag
May 15th, 2008 at
11:39 am
Cool. What’s song playing?
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lunna
May 27th, 2008 at
1:37 pm
it was incredible
when i watched this video i couldn’t believe my eyes how he went there :p he is really brave 
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S2
June 3rd, 2008 at
12:23 pm
Song Info:
Michael Darius - Magic of Politics (Andrew K Trip To 99 remix)
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Meff 2 S2
June 6th, 2008 at
12:49 am
S2, u saved the day! Thanx.
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