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3catwoman3

(24,007 posts)
9. You and me both. I definitely, absolutely do not have...
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 09:39 PM
Aug 2019

...the risk taking gene.

I don’t even want to watch this, let alone do it.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
2. I'm not sure this would be called a "hiking trail". But, whatever it's called...
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 06:07 PM
Aug 2019

Strolling along this thing is bad enough, but imagine the balls on those people who first set it up!

hunter

(38,318 posts)
13. Imagine chiseling footholds and handholds into the rock...
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 12:31 PM
Aug 2019

... suspended by a hand woven plant fiber rope.

No steel safety cables, not even any chains or iron anchors in the rock.



The U.S.A.'s Western railroads were a similar feat.

https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/

magicarpet

(14,155 posts)
5. If you pee yourself because of fright when you watch this...
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 06:28 PM
Aug 2019

Would a more novice "hiking trail" be recommended and appropriate ?

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
6. I'd do that. Looks like a real trip. Only problem I have
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 06:44 PM
Aug 2019

with it is there's too many people. I don't mind the hike, I just don't like the crowd or the screaming.

SCantiGOP

(13,871 posts)
7. Well, when I was young
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 06:46 PM
Aug 2019

that's how I had to walk to school each day, except it was always snowing and I didn't have shoes. Them kids in that picture don't know how good they have it.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
10. Watching that makes me want to throw up.
Mon Aug 26, 2019, 11:57 PM
Aug 2019

I can't stand heights. Why would anyone in their right mind subject themselves to that?

Coventina

(27,121 posts)
12. I couldn't finish the video. All I could think of was WHY?!?!?
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 11:27 AM
Aug 2019

I'm a firm believer that some things are not meant to be done by humans. That is one of them.

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