Would you do this?

[thalberg]

Would any of you do this?  I want to go to Spain and try it. 

https://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562%20+

[Bob]

That would be quite a rush.  I've seen that thing.  Scary even to watch.

I think I'd either be very focused on not tripping or I'd just let it all go and enjoy it.

[anodibu]

If the path was still intact I would do it but now I wouldn't risk my life for this.

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.

[Essyne]

One word - YES!!!

When do we go, thalberg? Honestly!

now I wouldn't risk my life for this.

Well, I would - it's called actually LIVING!

*Essy looks up how much it will cost her to fly to Spain and calculates how many months she'll have to forgo eating/any sort of lessons to afford it*

[pianowolfi]

Legendary. I'm in awe  

[sharon_f]

Insane!

[Etude]

*** no.   

now I wouldn't risk my life for this.

Well, I would - it's called actually LIVING!

If you fell, it would be called actually DYING.

[thalbergmad]

I cannot even climb a ladder to clean the windows.

If i attempted that i know i would freeze and also produce the worlds longest skid marks.

Thal

[Essyne]

If you fell, it would be called actually DYING.

Well, if I am going to vapor-lock, it's going to be in some halfway interesting way like this.

Geez - can you imagine? How fun this would be! (the hiking; not the dying . . . and that didn't mean to sound as "Valley girl-ish" as it came out).

[thalberg]

One word - YES!!!

When do we go, thalberg? Honestly!

How about august 1st?

[a-sharp]

OMG that is amazing! sure - I'd do it! There better be a stiff drink waiting for me after it was over! LOL

[goldentone]

No. 

[pianochick93]

Definitely not. I'm not willing to take the chance that I might slip and fall. I don't want to waste my life like that.

[pianowolfi]

There would be the (more healthy) option to do this on the rope.

[pianochick93]

Yeah, I would possibly consider doing it with a rope. I'm scared of heights though.

[Essyne]

How about august 1st?

You seriously going? You pay, I'm there  .

. . . then there's just explaining to the 'rents why I'm going to Spain w/ some guy I met over the internet who's a tad bit older than me . . . (oh yes. . . "just" that  ).

[Bob]

And then when you do fall and get caught with the rope, the thin little rope, you just do what?  Wait and hang there for awhile while someone comes to rescue you?

[Essyne]

Why use a rope? Just hanging there would be awfully stressful. Might as well just fall and get it over with.

[indutrial]

While the adreneline rush is probably intense, I would not walk on that old piece of crap any sooner than I'd hop into a Wright Brothers' era airplane to go flying around. Cool video though.

[Bob]

All it would take it a loose stone too. 

If there was the side of the mountain in the way, strap on a parachute.  Then I'd do it.  After test jumping and learning how to parachute in the first place.

I wonder how great and safe it was in the first place.  Or even how safe those ropes are on the wall now.

[indutrial]

All it would take it a loose stone too. 

If there was the side of the mountain in the way, strap on a parachute.  Then I'd do it.  After test jumping and learning how to parachute in the first place.

I wonder how great and safe it was in the first place.  Or even how safe those ropes are on the wall now.

Do you mean to say "if there wasn't the side of the mountain in the way"? I'd imagine that a parachute wouldn't be able to deploy properly before you became hamburger on the side of one of the numerous outcrops or got impaled by one or more tree branches. Walking on that thing is just a bad idea, end of story.

[maul]

**** no. I have too much to lose. Badass stuff though.

Essyne, you're so full of it. You'd probably crap your pants before you got to the first collapsed area.

[Bob]

Yeah, if there wasn't a mountain side there.  A straight free fall...?  But then again that would make it safe if you could use a parachute.

I just think the adrenaline rush would be nice.  Awesome.  Not just that.  But a sense of aliveness. 

It is interesting... You can't experience that because you have things to live for?  Things that hold you back?  Things that would actually prevent you from feeling that way? 

On one hand I would think that is part of what life is about, living that way. 

And if there was a path.... the pipes are still that path... I'm guessing this isn't the only guy wandering around like that.  If you slip, yes... but if not?  How much farther is it from just walking on a path?  A path that happens to be hundreds (or thousands, whatever it is) from the bottom?

Part of me would like to.  In reality... probably not, esp considering it's in Spain. 

(Bob goes off and drinks milk on the day of its expiration.)  Oh yeah.... An' I don't care!  Haha.  Living on the edge....

[pianogeek_cz]

Ewww. No. Friggin'. Way.
You can't even crawl on it without falling through! It's like an ementaler cheese!

I wonder how did it look like back in 1901... or why was it built, how did they build it, who actually used it...

[Essyne]

Essyne, you're so full of it. You'd probably crap your pants before you got to the first collapsed area.

I'm flattered.

As you do not know me, I'd hardly say that this is a justified statement. But thank you for your considerate post.

[indutrial]

And if there was a path.... the pipes are still that path... I'm guessing this isn't the only guy wandering around like that.  If you slip, yes... but if not?  How much farther is it from just walking on a path?  A path that happens to be hundreds (or thousands, whatever it is) from the bottom?

Part of me would like to.  In reality... probably not, esp considering it's in Spain. 

Even if that thing was in my own neighborhood, the only time I might have tried it would have had to have been during my teenaged years when I tried lots of stupid crap (Like riding into a giant leaf pile with my bike at full speed...bad results or purposely sledding into tree-heavy areas on a dare....again, bad results). While some of the Andalucian locals have probably traversed that thing a few times, I'm sure the majority of people screwing around on it now are a bunch of reasonably wealthy thrill-seekers from the usual wealthy countries who have too much money and time on their hands and are wrapped up in that masturbatory 'hard-core' sporting fetish that causes numerous bodies to pile up year after year with ski-slopes, rock-climbs, and rip-tides.

[maul]

I'm flattered.

As you do not know me, I'd hardly say that this is a justified statement. But thank you for your considerate post.

Yes, I'm sure a 17 year old girl is just going to go flying across those beams over a 700 foot drop with no problems. Get real.

Talk is cheap. Very cheap.

[thalbergmad]

I think extreme ironing is probably more fun than this.

Thal

[chopininov]

Would I do this? It looks like he's walking up some stairs to me. I happen to do this every day on the way to my bedroom.
So yes I'd do it.

EDIT: Thought I had watched the whole video. I now know what all the hullabaloo is about.  But I'd still do this. If for nothing else than to look at the beautiful scenery.

[a-sharp]

Thal,

What exactly is extreme ironing? Have you done it? It sounds friggin scary.

[thalbergmad]

I have never done any ironing, it is womens work.

Thal

[a-sharp]

Well, anything that requires any real amount of skill, sure - we end up doing it.

EDIT: Traditionally that is. Because we are just better at stuff. Now, we are also smart(er), so, I don't buy anything that requires ironing. That's what the cleaners are for. So anyone else, regardless of gender, you are on your own (at least here). 

[thalberg]

You seriously going? You pay, I'm there  .

. . . then there's just explaining to the 'rents why I'm going to Spain w/ some guy I met over the internet who's a tad bit older than me . . . (oh yes. . . "just" that  ).

Well I'd be happy to sit down with them and explain everything.  "I would like to bring your daughter to a 700 foot high, 3-foot wide walkway built in 1901.  Portions are collapsed so that you have to balance on a strips of steel 6 inches wide, but it's been done.  If she wants to do it, I think you should let her.  Yes, we met on the internet, but I am not a sexual predator, I promise.  But I cannot promise she will not fall from the walkway and die, because many people do."

How's that?

[chopininov]

Hopefully her parents are hippies.

[shingo]

This one is pretty intense as well.

You might want to let it buffer and skip into it as there is quite a bit of build up. Although it is still interesting.

[a-sharp]

Um, that is for other people. Not me.

Playing a Chopin ballade in front of a bunch of people is terrifying enough for me. LOL.

Beside, the only reason I'd to the other one is b/c Thal would be in front of me leading the way. 

[Essyne]

Yes, I'm sure a 17 year old girl is just going to go flying across those beams over a 700 foot drop with no problems. Get real.

Talk is cheap. Very cheap.

I guess I'll just let this go (although, because I'm still RESPONDING, I obviously haven't let it go. . .  but whatever). I guess there's no point in arguing Character (or whatever this falls under) over the internet. It's ridiculous. Regardless, (nope. . . still haven't let it go, but h*ll, "talk is cheap," eh?) and, quite frankly, I think that a 17 year old would be MORE likely to do it than some older person who's more settled in life. But the point's moot, because we're both just making hasty generalizations without taking the actual Individual into consideration.

Hopefully her parents are hippies.

Unfortunately, they come from the other end of the spectrum (Although I have been regarded as the so-called "hippie" by my peers, I assured them that we were indeed living in the 21st century and have been for some time. . . I just like tye-died stuff and eccentric jewelry (or, perhaps they make these accusations because I don't wear SouthPole or AppleBottoms  )).