That makes me so dizzy I nearly fell off the settee!!!

Gawd almighty! *faints*

 if that was me, panic attack, craziness lol.

Fucking nuts innit.  I love the walking along the rusty steel beams and looking through the holes into the abyss.  Feel proper ill ....

I was doing fine till they hung the camera on the wrong side of the rail and looked down. 

I had to pull out of that vid and it's visuals very early on because I suffer from vertigo, so whether a vid or real life experience I really can't deal with certain situations.

Totally gay, I walk up better roads in Sheffield every day. Big fucking hills.

oh my fecking god!!!!!  H&S gone mad again

Not lately you dont.

Oooh cheap shot, I am ashamed.

Meh....looks a piece of piss if you ask me.....

Why/How was it built in the first place?

What does that mean?

i could never walk that not in a million years.

El Caminito del Rey (English: The King's little pathway) is a walkway or via ferrata, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in Málaga, Spain. The name is often shortened to Camino del Rey.

In 1901 it became obvious that workers at the hydroelectric power plants at Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls needed a walkway to cross between the falls, to provide for transport of materials, and for the inspection and maintenance of the channel. Construction of the walkway took four years and it was finished in 1905.

In 1921 King Alfonso XIII crossed the walkway for the inauguration of the dam Conde del Guadalhorce and it became known by its present name.

The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is one meter (3 feet and 3 inches) in width, and is over 300 meters (984 feet) above the river. Nearly all of the path has no handrail. Some parts of the concrete walkway have completely collapsed and all that is remaining is the steel beam originally in place to hold it up. One can latch onto a modern steel safety-wire to keep from falling, though it can't hold much weight. Several people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years; after four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000^[1], the local government closed the entrances. However, many adventurous tourists still find their way onto the walkway to explore it.

As of October 1 2009, the path is very accessible. Some travelers choose to begin by walking through the train tunnel to the dam, and then walking back towards El Chorro. A cable runs the length of the path, giving people a method of securing themselves throughout the duration of the path. However, the stability of the cable is unknown. It would be wise to have space (more than 10 meters) between travelers. That way, if a section breaks, the cable will only be holding the weight of one person.

The regional government of Andalusia budgeted in 2006 for a restoration plan^[2] estimated at € 7 million.

Thanks Fluffy..very interesting.

A cable runs the length of the path, giving people a method of securing themselves throughout the duration of the path. However, the stability of the cable is unknown.  It would be wise to have space (more than 10 meters) between travelers. That way, if a section breaks,  the cable will only be holding the weight of one person.

No effin' way!My stomach had butterflies watching that.

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that made me feel so queasy

Thank you Profile for that! Bloody brilliant. And thank you EFFT for the explanations. That would be worse than any scary fairground ride! I'm not frightened of heights, but I don't know how I would react if I was on that path! Scary, but "come on and do it!"

Wow - that looks a bit hairy in places. But what a view!

bjesus i have trouble going up in lifts

Thanks for the explanation Rawky

I also hate lifts, but it's not the height, it's the enclosed space. In a crowded lift, I can hear my heart hammering against the walls

Most of the heights on that Camino del Rey wouldn't bother me, but the crumbly areas and bare girders might...

one look at that and you'd decide to go somewhere else, well i would...

OOoo that's made me go all funny

NO, NO and NO!  Good god I sometimes get vertigo when wearing heels.

Did anyone else's bum twitch?

I'm amazed that it's in Europe, I thought it must be in South America somewhere. I can't believe that the Elf and Safety eurocrats haven't gone mad about it.
What incredible views though, not that I'd go along it, not even for a million pounds