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Thrillseekers risk their lives a taking a walk along 'world's most-dangerous path'
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 10.9.11

Posted on 10/09/2011 3:19:49 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch

Teetering along a crumbling walkway over 100 metres high, a group of intrepid climbers carefully inch their way across what has been dubbed the most dangerous path in the world.

And they're not alone. Adrenaline-junkies have been flocking to southern Spain to experience the 110-year-old El Caminito Del Rey before work begins to refurbish it next tear.

Companies have now begun offering unofficial tours after a video of a walker tackling the hair-raising trail went viral on YouTube.

Teetering along a crumbling walkway over 100 metres high, a group of intrepid climbers carefully inch their way across what has been dubbed the most dangerous path in the world.

And they're not alone. Adrenaline-junkies have been flocking to southern Spain to experience the 110-year-old El Caminito Del Rey before work begins to refurbish it next tear.

Companies have now begun offering unofficial tours after a video of a walker tackling the hair-raising trail went viral on YouTube.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: malaga; nothankyou; spain

1 posted on 10/09/2011 3:19:52 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
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To: InvisibleChurch

There are tons of great youtube versions of El Camino Del Rey.


2 posted on 10/09/2011 3:22:03 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: InvisibleChurch

great video!


3 posted on 10/09/2011 3:22:41 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (welcome dies irae)
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To: InvisibleChurch

I may have a stroke, maybe get hit by a car, get shot and lot’s of other things, but my obit will never include falling off that trail.


4 posted on 10/09/2011 3:30:57 PM PDT by umgud
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To: InvisibleChurch
Mind your step: The walkway is riddled with hundreds of holes

Hmmmm, wonder how those got there?

5 posted on 10/09/2011 3:38:36 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: InvisibleChurch

If it’s fun for them, whatever, but don’t ask me to feel sorry for those who go splat.


6 posted on 10/09/2011 3:43:52 PM PDT by Tax-chick (A poor excuse for a pirate. Arrrr, you get what you pay for!)
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To: InvisibleChurch

How about the guys who built that thing? Ay, caramba!


7 posted on 10/09/2011 4:12:14 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: InvisibleChurch
So that's where that video came from. I cringed every second that I watched it.
8 posted on 10/09/2011 5:11:39 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. A primer on armed revolt. Available form Amazon.)
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To: Travis McGee

Beautiful! But I think I’ll wait until AFTER they reconstruct it!!!


9 posted on 10/09/2011 5:13:26 PM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Aww hell NO!


10 posted on 10/09/2011 5:36:21 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: umgud
but my obit will never include falling off that trail.

I LOL'd with that one.

11 posted on 10/09/2011 7:05:41 PM PDT by LouAvul
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