Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Climbing down "The King's Pathway" makes my heart stop

whatever you do - don't look down
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Caminito del Rey

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El Caminito del Rey (English: 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.
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In 1901 it was obvious that the workers of the Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls needed a walkway to cross between the falls, to provide transport of materials, vigilance and maintenance of the channel. Construction of the walkway lasted four years. It was finished in 1905.
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The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state.
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It is one meter in width, and has over a 700 feet fall. Nearly all of the path has no handrail.
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Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and have been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall. Many people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years.
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The regional government of Andalusia budgeted for 2006 a restoration plan[1] estimated at € 7 million.
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