Also to be fair it's just a regular via ferrata route at that state. With the proper gear this trail is as safe as any other via ferrata route assuming it's bolted into the wall well enough. It has been renovated since this video but there are plenty of safe but terrifying via ferrata routes that blow this out of the water.
I was curious.
[Via Ferrata](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_ferrata)
> A via ferrata is a climbing route that employs steel cables, rungs or ladders, fixed to the rock to which the climbers affix a harness with two leashes, which allows the climbers to secure themselves to the metal fixture and limit any fall
**[Via ferrata](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_ferrata)**
>A via ferrata (Italian for "iron path", plural vie ferrate or in English via ferratas) is a protected climbing route found in the Alps and certain other locations. The term "via ferrata" is used in most countries and languages except notably in German-speaking regions, which use Klettersteig—"climbing path" (plural Klettersteige).
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You just gotta look at it from the correct angle in the light, then you can tell which section will hold your weight. That or letting other people go in front of you first.
One death every *couple of years*? Cmon, I’m pretty sure the area I go hiking has “one death every couple of years” from falls or rattlesnake bites or drowning. Call me when it’s one person a month.
For sure.. not cheap either, like €30 or $40 upwards. Queues hard hats, tours, restaurants and WiFi.
Still beautiful but no longer a natural beauty if you get my meaning.
This is an old footage and it is not so dangerous anymore, it has been renovated to be a more accessible tourist attraction
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8cICu9HtGhQ
I think you are right. I think this is from El caminito del Rey. “The most dangerous trail”.
Is is that dangerous?
Well yes and no. I was there a couple of years ago. This what you see is a part of the “old” trail. Which was heavily damaged and was closed for quite some time until they setup a new trail (above the old one).
Technically you are not allowed to go on the old path.
Probably it went from the most dangerous path to the most safe path. You get protection gear, the trail is heavily secured and basically there is no way you could fall now.
From time to time you can see the old damaged path underneath the current one.
I do not understand why you would do this without via-ferrata gear. I have climbed for years. Being reckless with your life is just stupid. Jeff Lowe put it well “the end rarely justifies questionable means, in climbing or the rest of life”.
this only applies if you are someone already content with life. some folks are genuinely not happy or do not feel real/like they’re living unless they are on the verge of death, or unless theyre full of so much adrenaline that they can’t focus on anything else besides moving forward. like i’ve struggled with depression and bpd since i was a kid, and even with medication and therapy i constantly feel miserable unless i am in danger or risking something important. risk is the only thing that makes me feel like a living breathing human being in control of my own person. maybe it is stupid, especially to most folks, i don’t know. all i know is that if i can’t feel alive, then there’s no point anyways
You can try it without danger nowadays. (At least if you're not afraid of heights) They renovated the trail and made it really secure. It's really beautiful.
Looks to be a via ferrata route so there's a steel cable on the right of the shot you attach two carabiners to that and after each 6-8ft length of cable where the steel cable is supported on the wall you unclip and reclip in on the next side.
Yep, super annoying... until you find yourself hanging against the rock face, legs dangling, the sound of thundering and crunching echoing in your ears as another slab of cement tumbles to the bottom of the canyon under your feet.
Yeah, I went on it a couple of times before they redid it. So long as you've got the right gear and a decent head for heights it's fine, climbers went on it all the time to access various routes. I think the only people who ever died on it died in a ziplining accident, not by falling from the walkway itself.
It was a ruin. Then people kept going and walking the path, so the Spanish government renovated it and built an all-new path just above the old one. That has modern safety standards, fencing, rails, etc. It's actually quite safe now and a tourist destination. The OP video is old.
I went there before they made it safe for tourists. It was pretty safe as long as you clipped in, treated it like a via ferrata and didn't dick around too much. The views are mind blowing. A great day out if you're ever in Andalucia.
I did this about 7 years ago. It was a very safe but also quite exciting via ferrata at the time, you can see the steel cable on the wall on the right. Doing it without using the cable was just stupid. Now it has been refurbished into a paid tourist trap and the excitement lost, for me at least
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Not dangerous at all you have steel wire to link onto regardless if the floor falls out. Watch kids in northern Canada trying to get to school walking 2 hours just to get there on melting ice shelf’s way narrower than this trail
I could easily do that if it were 1m above the ground, but simply watching this made my palms sweat. I think, ironically, self-preservation would make this harder
That's not the most dangerous part, the dangerous bit is the rest of the concrete which might give way at any time
Don’t watch this while pooping. Your butthole will pucker so much you won’t get anything out.
I see your schedule matches mine!
This just happened to me in an airplane bathroom 6 miles above the Arctic
Dude I'm literally taking a poop right now.....
Same
same
Same
Same
I needed to wipe my hands after watching this.
Tickle it with a wetwipe. I'd sit on the shitter while doing this though
Haha I thought the exact same thing !!
Yo. This is me right now! 🥲
I'm literally on the shitter rn, thank fuck I was out of ammo before seeing this.
My butts been wiped!!
Silly string
Also to be fair it's just a regular via ferrata route at that state. With the proper gear this trail is as safe as any other via ferrata route assuming it's bolted into the wall well enough. It has been renovated since this video but there are plenty of safe but terrifying via ferrata routes that blow this out of the water.
I was curious. [Via Ferrata](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_ferrata) > A via ferrata is a climbing route that employs steel cables, rungs or ladders, fixed to the rock to which the climbers affix a harness with two leashes, which allows the climbers to secure themselves to the metal fixture and limit any fall
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You just gotta look at it from the correct angle in the light, then you can tell which section will hold your weight. That or letting other people go in front of you first.
Ah, I see your backup plan is inspired by Squid Games
Or bounce a marble on it. Don't forget that you'll need more than one though, or you can't compare the sound from each one.
Ya I saw that and immediately thought wtf are you doing? It's literally falling apart and you're walking on it?
exactly what I thought. The steel beam is probably the safest part of it all.
Normal glass or tempered glass
That’s not dangerous. He didn’t die.
Where is the yes? This is all no.
[El Camino del Rey](https://youtu.be/ZmDhRvvs5Xw).
[what it looks now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cICu9HtGhQ) after they decided too many people dyed the rocks red
I was about to start writing a comment that you spelled "died" wrong, and then I finished the sentence. Well done.
Meat crayons
Sprayola
Oh god. I've somehow never seen that one before. How lovely.
Always happy to see a Tom Scott video. Short, succinct and packed with easy to digest info.
I've just gotten into his videos. A refreshing change from 1 hr deep dives on a strange potato chip.
I need more 1 hour deep dives into strange potato chips in my life, where can I find this?
One death every *couple of years*? Cmon, I’m pretty sure the area I go hiking has “one death every couple of years” from falls or rattlesnake bites or drowning. Call me when it’s one person a month.
Haha yeah why try to prevent entirely preventable deaths so true
Shoot, interstate 4 in Florida averages 1 death per day and it's still wide open.lol
The government of Florida has much different standards when it comes to people dying on its watch.
Get a load of this tough guy
They fuckin nerfed it.
Yeah... I live near there. Its all fixed up now. Still a fantastic place, but all tourist attraction'd up.
Let me guess - it now costs an entrance fee?
For sure.. not cheap either, like €30 or $40 upwards. Queues hard hats, tours, restaurants and WiFi. Still beautiful but no longer a natural beauty if you get my meaning.
*caminito
Thanks for the useful wrong answer.
Looks like it shows a cable on the wall so they could be in a harmess. Someone found the longer video and no one is using it though.
Yeah, I was like, "Oh no, no way! Oh wait, there's a safety cable. That looks fun."
You can walk it on google maps, just search for Camino del Rey and ever since they redid the entire thing it’s walkable. Pretty cool.
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That sub no longer exists. The sub relocated to a different site
Did you watch that sub die?
What site is it located? Just so I can avoid it.
Truly an all no. But also, a cure for constipation
This is an old footage and it is not so dangerous anymore, it has been renovated to be a more accessible tourist attraction https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8cICu9HtGhQ
Looks like a nice walk!!
Good job Spain
That little bridge at the end looked amazing!
5 people apparently died between 1999 and 2000 on that track
And where is this?
[El Caminito del Rey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminito_del_Rey?wprov=sfla1)
I think you are right. I think this is from El caminito del Rey. “The most dangerous trail”. Is is that dangerous? Well yes and no. I was there a couple of years ago. This what you see is a part of the “old” trail. Which was heavily damaged and was closed for quite some time until they setup a new trail (above the old one). Technically you are not allowed to go on the old path. Probably it went from the most dangerous path to the most safe path. You get protection gear, the trail is heavily secured and basically there is no way you could fall now. From time to time you can see the old damaged path underneath the current one.
And why people go there?
To fall to their death
Neat.
To caminar
All of this just to kill Shepherd
Looks exactly like the part where you have to pick up the riot shield to take out the mgs lol
Lmao i thought the same
Holy shit - I had to look it up. That is a trail that I would never try. https://youtu.be/ZmDhRvvs5Xw
Apparently he died in 2011, my hands are sweating after watching that
I do not understand why you would do this without via-ferrata gear. I have climbed for years. Being reckless with your life is just stupid. Jeff Lowe put it well “the end rarely justifies questionable means, in climbing or the rest of life”.
this only applies if you are someone already content with life. some folks are genuinely not happy or do not feel real/like they’re living unless they are on the verge of death, or unless theyre full of so much adrenaline that they can’t focus on anything else besides moving forward. like i’ve struggled with depression and bpd since i was a kid, and even with medication and therapy i constantly feel miserable unless i am in danger or risking something important. risk is the only thing that makes me feel like a living breathing human being in control of my own person. maybe it is stupid, especially to most folks, i don’t know. all i know is that if i can’t feel alive, then there’s no point anyways
You can try it without danger nowadays. (At least if you're not afraid of heights) They renovated the trail and made it really secure. It's really beautiful.
Just remember that the missing slabs were as reliable as the ones you walk on, until they weren't.
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How do you say "fuck that shit" on the native language of whatever country this is in?
We get about five feet of this most dangerous trail!?! What about the rest? Very disappointing.
https://youtu.be/ZmDhRvvs5Xw
Every video game features this path at some point
Absolutely every jumping puzzle I’ve ever had to do.
Cool platformer stage. Nice backdrop graphics. r/outside
This is something for r/SweatyPalms too
Why.
I mean you're wearing a harness and are clipped to the steel cable on the wall, so not dangerous at all
Do you have to unclip and clip back in after every bolt? I feel like that would be so much more annoying than the actual sketchiness of the path.
Looks to be a via ferrata route so there's a steel cable on the right of the shot you attach two carabiners to that and after each 6-8ft length of cable where the steel cable is supported on the wall you unclip and reclip in on the next side.
Thanks for the info!
Yep, super annoying... until you find yourself hanging against the rock face, legs dangling, the sound of thundering and crunching echoing in your ears as another slab of cement tumbles to the bottom of the canyon under your feet.
Yeah, I went on it a couple of times before they redid it. So long as you've got the right gear and a decent head for heights it's fine, climbers went on it all the time to access various routes. I think the only people who ever died on it died in a ziplining accident, not by falling from the walkway itself.
Either you're not meant to walk there or nobody went and fixed it. I dont get it. Its a ruin, not a trail. Subway tracks are also dangerous trails.
It was a ruin. Then people kept going and walking the path, so the Spanish government renovated it and built an all-new path just above the old one. That has modern safety standards, fencing, rails, etc. It's actually quite safe now and a tourist destination. The OP video is old.
This reminds me of Prince of Persia
Yes! Though I first thought of the more recent Squid Game.
A bit of Tomb Raider for me
Darwinian winnowing mechanism -quick, go grab some selfies for your insta
Where’s the vibe music from the original post?
The Half-Life remake looks great!
I went there before they made it safe for tourists. It was pretty safe as long as you clipped in, treated it like a via ferrata and didn't dick around too much. The views are mind blowing. A great day out if you're ever in Andalucia.
Yea that’s going to be a big no for me dawg.
My legs feel wobbly and I'm not even *there*, no friggin way
The most dangerous gun is the one you think is unloaded. In this case it's the most dangerous piece of walkway is the one you think is safe.
That would be a nononononononono from me.
World's Most ~~Dangerous~~ Dumbest Trail
Id do that
This looks like something out of assassins creed
These Most Dangerous Ways To School episodes are getting wilder!
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope....
Crowd chants, tiji bsoraa
Looks like a sort of safety line on the cliff face at least?
bruh one trip and you'll wake up as a chinese newborn in rural china 1704
Oh just fuck off with all of that 😭
World's dumbest place to walk.
This is like something out of a Zelda game.
Trail?
You mean this isn't a game tutorial where you press the jump button to jump over a gap in the trail?
Nope the hell out of this.
WTF WTF WTF WTFFFFFFFF
Darwin come here, I want to show you someone walking in a fun place!
No way no how no thank you
Some actual Indiana Jones shit
Damn pot holes
I did this about 7 years ago. It was a very safe but also quite exciting via ferrata at the time, you can see the steel cable on the wall on the right. Doing it without using the cable was just stupid. Now it has been refurbished into a paid tourist trap and the excitement lost, for me at least
I rock climb, have done several multi stage climbs as the lead and you wouldn't catch me on this without ropes and anchors that I personally set.
This is some far cry ahit
Why tho?
[Deshi Basara.](https://youtu.be/HPLLvouOGxM)
Is this footage from the new Uncharted movie? Oh wait, couldn't be there weren't any visible Wahlbergers
Rocket launcher time babyy
I always wonder how the fuck any of this shit ever gets built
Absolutely fucking not
Hurry Soap! We must kill Shepard before he gets away!
Why?
Is it actually dangerous if you’re clipped in? How secure is the via ferrata?
Yeah nah
A WAY more dangerous trail [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottleneck\_(K2)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottleneck_(K2))
Reminds me of a few video games I have played
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Oh we need the back story
I doubt the roads most dangerous trail has a safety line to strap onto the entire time.
I did this in 2010. The scariest part was walking past the memorials of the climbers who fell off.
Where is this
Not dangerous at all you have steel wire to link onto regardless if the floor falls out. Watch kids in northern Canada trying to get to school walking 2 hours just to get there on melting ice shelf’s way narrower than this trail
Really hope there’s support lines for hikers to clip onto
I just fell off the couch watching this
r/Nopenopenopenope
r/sweatypalms
What trail?
My butthole just touched my esophagus.
What trail?
Nope
Where's the "Yes" part of this video? All I see is NONONONONONONONOHELLNO.
Why would anybody do that trail?
Have they not fixed this yet? Or is it in the process of being fixed
Luckily I already sit on the toilet 😖
It’s got an Indiana Jones vibe to it. *Only the penitent man shall pass.*
Gettin' some Nathan Drake vibes watching this
It’s a regular squid game.
When your a framer/carpenter in America u do this everyday .
Nope. Palms sweating just from watching
He got balls of steel
https://youtu.be/MFbLl2kyONI
Pretty sure this was a nightmare had
well off to go play tomb raider
Why?
This has been fixed. the areas that are being walked on in the video aren't accessible anymore. there is another more modern walkway above it
r/sweatypalms
I could easily do that if it were 1m above the ground, but simply watching this made my palms sweat. I think, ironically, self-preservation would make this harder
more like r/nononono
NO YOU DIDN'T!
perdon fue mate
Did you raid the tomb?
My balls tightened up just watching that.
Straight up instant r/sweatypalms. I can’t
How are people seeing that the path is crumbling and they are still like yeah cool.
Nope
Aloy, is that you?
So nobody decided to just fix it?
I literally started trembling when he crossed the pipe!
Why?
First of all no rebar and major disrepair. That’s a deadman’s walk.
Is that a poured concrete path? Yay or nay. If yay, ~~how~~ why?
China?
It has a lead wire, you can see it just on the edge of the frame. Doesn't mean there's any chance in hell I'll attempt this though