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| Tweet Topic Started: May 26 2008, 03:42 AM (350 Views) | |
| Dewey | May 26 2008, 03:42 AM Post #1 |
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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 Malaga, 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, and over a 700-meter fall, and over time it has also lost its handrail. Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and have been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall.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. After four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000, the local government closed the entrances. However, adventurous tourists still find their way into the walkway. http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562 Be sure to watch this Full Screen! |
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| Mikhailoh | May 26 2008, 04:01 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Thank you, no....
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| Phlebas | May 26 2008, 04:14 AM Post #3 |
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Bull-Carp
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Sure. Where's my parachute? |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Moonbat | May 26 2008, 04:38 AM Post #4 |
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It looks totally awesome, don't think i could cope with walking on those metal beams though. (also I think someone posted it before - though it was worth repost) |
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| CTPianotech | May 26 2008, 04:39 AM Post #5 |
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I'll take the 4-D tour!
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| George K | May 26 2008, 05:03 AM Post #6 |
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Why don't you do it, take some photos and tell me how it was. |
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| Mikhailoh | May 26 2008, 05:15 AM Post #7 |
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Yeah - and copy me on that, eh?
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| Optimistic | May 26 2008, 05:23 AM Post #8 |
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Hmmm, it's not listed in my guidebook. I was amazed at how many other people this person ran into while walking this thing! |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| sarah_blueparrot | May 26 2008, 07:21 AM Post #9 |
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This was a different lunatic from the first video! I had a bad dream after watching it the first time. After the second time, I'm wondering why I saw it again... I couldn't do that. |
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| kenny | May 26 2008, 07:33 AM Post #10 |
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I've never been afraid of heights but watching that really made me feel uneasy. How the frack did they build that thing?
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| DivaDeb | May 26 2008, 07:36 AM Post #11 |
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vewy vewy carefuwwy |
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| sarah_blueparrot | May 26 2008, 07:38 AM Post #12 |
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Whoa... awesome picture, kenny
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| sue | May 26 2008, 07:39 AM Post #13 |
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Not in mine, either. Not that I would have been tempted. :mellow: I had to turn my face sideways while I was watching the video, and said "no, no, no" out loud several times. Can't help but think about the folks that actually built this thing. Fun job.
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| OperaTenor | May 26 2008, 01:14 PM Post #14 |
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I'm wondering how the heck they poured the darn concrete. |
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| kenny | May 26 2008, 01:36 PM Post #15 |
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| Daniel | May 26 2008, 01:50 PM Post #16 |
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That was an awesome video, Dewey! Thanks! |
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| Phlebas | May 26 2008, 02:00 PM Post #17 |
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It would be poured as slabs, and brought up. Otherwise it would be quarried stone slabs. Looks more like concrete though. If I was walking it, I would stay to the outside - near the steel bars. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| OperaTenor | May 26 2008, 06:13 PM Post #18 |
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Yes, definitely concrete - unreinforced, at that. If they poured the slabs down below, then hoisted them up there, I'm still mystified. They built a lot of that on sheer rock faces. ![]() |
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Not in mine, either. Not that I would have been tempted. :mellow:

11:27 AM Jul 11