Makes what Spot does look extremely safe.

Bob.

That's nuts!

well, as far as i'm concerned, it looked pretty much like half-life, i just didn't realise they had such realistic graphics in games nowadays...

leslie

"But I ASKED for Anchovies!! - Can you SEE anchovies?? Can you?! And I did NOT ask for green peppers! - PLUS you are late!! Did I ASK for cold pizza? I think NOT! . . . seesshh"

Whew! Glad to hear I'm not the only one so freaked of heights I get a serious 'contact' high just sitting in a chair hanging on....heart pounding, palms sweating, eyeballs buggin out on stems, brain freaking , screaming the silent scream only I can hear....

Can you believe how steady his camera was considering?

And major compliments to the very engaging music score which was the last straw for me...!

I think I need a drink!

Eileen

I just get "Under construction, check back in a few hours" :-(

So in the meantime, here's http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2008/dangerous-pathway-spain-p1.phpanother one[/link] for other vertigo sufferers like me!

Actually it's the same video, on a different site. Vertigo is, I think, an irrational fear of heights. On that pathway I would have a rational fear of structural collapse, after which I think there would be little time to decide whether the consequent fear of death was rational or irrational.

Simply gorge-ous!

Yikes....

VERRRRTIGO000000!!!
Tell me you're under 23 and this is a frontal lobe development thing.
I mean you didn't shoot thisjust because its there, right?
Tell me it was a job and you got big dollars.
What camera?
Music works well I thought.

Can you believe how steady his camera was considering?

The steadiness of his camera was not on my mind. What was on my mind was the fact that he faced rather a steep drop if he fell. Now, what really fixed that in my mind was illustrated at several points in the video when he was passing others.

You might have noticed some of the time that there was a safety wire that you could clip onto along the road. Several of the people you see in the video wear harnesses and are clipped on to the wire. Given the way he is walking not only is he not clipped on (he would have had to stop, clip off and back on a lot more often) but through significant portions of that walk he is not even holding on to that safety line with his hand.

As I said, nuts. Utterly nuts. But beautiful footage. And amazing stabilization I guess, I didn't notice :-)

Every time I watch that I wonder who built it in the first place and how did they get all the materials up there?

It's scary. Very scary!

And who fixed those metal supports in place below the walkway? and HOW???

Anyone remember the 'theater in the round' at Disneyland?

Can you imagine a total surround - 360 degree - view while doing that walk? You''d definitely be hanging on to the railings they provide in the theater..... IMAX anyone?

I wouldn't even do it if the whole walkway were carpeted iin velcro and my boots had the other half of the velcro glued to the soles....

"El Chorro, Spain"

Put that in your Google Earth and zoom in to the northern end of the lake and you will be able to see this area as well as some still photos of the walkway. Helps explain why they needed a walkway over these mountains....

This was amazing - made my b*lls crawl right up my...well, you know! Geez it had that "bad dream" quality but I couldn't stop watching it. A great achievement. Whew.

Thanks to AlanC's link to BoreMe I found this video. Those guys are just plain STUPID!
By that I mean walking along that pathway in Spain there's a remote chance you could stumble and save yourself but more to the point he was only risking his own neck. I wonder if those idiots on the crane considered what might happen if they dropped the camera onto anyone below.
Be warned too, the original video didn't trouble me that much, the guys on the crane sure got me hanging on tight.

Bob.

Good one Farss!

Its hard to type with sweaty palms after watching those 'crane birds'

Sure hope their mother's don't see this....

Crane birds: the video camerawork is terrible but adequate evidence of the stunt. Dropping the camera on people below was less of a threat than having the guy doing chin-ups dropping in. Nice situation if he found his muscles too fatigued to do that last lift. There is a real and fully genuine idiot.