Jan 12 2009Soiled Pants: The World's Scariest Hiking Trail
And that, my friends, is why I never leave the house.
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Thanks to The free faller, who took one wrong step.
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Reader Comments
1. Thisgirl! - January 12, 2009 5:59 PM
OMG First...
can't see the video though at work :(
2. known - January 12, 2009 6:05 PM
NEVERBACKDOWN
3. amber - January 12, 2009 6:07 PM
Oh hell no.
Thisgirl! - seriously though the video was kind of boring, your not missing anything :)
There is a sidewalk like path that wraps around the scary mountain.
I think 5:46 is the scariest part.
The path looks like it could crumble away in various places.
I wouldn't be able to walk a single step, I would be paralyzed.
4. Jamie - January 12, 2009 6:22 PM
super old, and the best version has sweet music behind it. but awesome all the same :)
5. Vautikos - January 12, 2009 6:36 PM
El Camino Del Ray!!!!! It looks like a f***ing level from Half-Life 2. I want to go there so bad, shame they've closed the trail due to all the hikers plummeting to their deaths.
6. Left4Dead - January 12, 2009 6:44 PM
@5 I was totally thinking FPS too. Now I'm sure someone will make an edit with headcrabs.
7. VF - January 12, 2009 6:51 PM
and THAT, is a Mexico's fanciest strip mall.
8. Ollie Williams - January 12, 2009 6:57 PM
Yeah, f*** that.
9. jason - January 12, 2009 7:07 PM
No, just no.
10. wanks - January 12, 2009 7:16 PM
who the f*** is this? indiana jones on crack?
11. Dylan - January 12, 2009 7:16 PM
holy shit.
12. Daisy - January 12, 2009 7:52 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max and Baja are driving in a motor home which gets carjacked by some bank robbers. They go to Mexico and stop at a bar which is filled with vampires.
13. PLEEEZE! - January 12, 2009 7:55 PM
Yes, and as you may have noticed, the brave videographer passed those wankers who had to be harnessed to the rock. Nerves of steel, that one! I'd give it a go. Never know 'till you try, right. Of course, I'll be well harnessed into my parachute just in case that unsturdy bit gave way.
14. Madzay - January 12, 2009 8:10 PM
wtf???
who is this guy??!!!
The Prince of Persia?!
i mean besides running on the walls and jumping off of platforms onto a pillar and then onto a pole and swinging off of that.....
15. Berzerker - January 12, 2009 8:39 PM
neet!
16. Somebody - January 12, 2009 8:41 PM
ballls man...eFFFing BALLS! Reminds me of Tomb Raider...the only way I would do this if I had a para....on second thought...I would never do this. OH HELL NO!
That is why my friends, I live in South Dakota....the plain states. The best thing we got here is a gas station with a slurpee machine....I mean 3 flavors...whoo hooo man, we are so livin' it up....oh good times.
17. Dycantos - January 12, 2009 8:47 PM
been there but my foot probably created one of those small holes i did nearly soil myself my girlfiend just laughed because i didnt clip in when she told me to.
PS how dare those idiots die and get it shut down
18. Ark - January 12, 2009 8:57 PM
The view is amazing but it would be way too difficult to hike that with all the shit that would be in my pants
19. Hatey McWrathenstein - January 12, 2009 9:16 PM
This thing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Camino_del_Rey
20. rnd - January 12, 2009 9:45 PM
Dude that was a nerve racking video, held my breath part of the way
that guy couldnt of been harnessed in he was passing people like he was
21. formerly SPELLINGNAZI - January 12, 2009 9:51 PM
I wanted to toss myself into that ravine, stuck listening to that gay f***ing music for six and a half minutes!
22. Joker Boy - January 12, 2009 9:52 PM
Whoever built that "trail" had to have been American cuz we got potholes in the street that look just as bad... and just as deep!
This is the type of trail that would make Indiana Jones say " Uh, I think we need to turn back..."
Joker
23. Joker Boy - January 12, 2009 9:54 PM
And the Insanity continues!...
http://www.blackbeatpress.com
24. Alex - January 12, 2009 10:02 PM
Trust me dude, this here is waaaaaaaay worse than that!
http://www.altusinfo.hr/lemontagne/Pelmo/Pelmo.htm
25. Eelill - January 12, 2009 10:45 PM
Dude I skate through this thing every morning
26. timmy the dying boy - January 12, 2009 11:36 PM
You bunch of candy asses. I hike that trail at least twice a week. At night. Drunk. Sheesh!
27. Thumperchica - January 13, 2009 12:07 AM
f*** that. My clumsy ass would be dead.
28. Carlito - January 13, 2009 12:15 AM
El camino del rey
29. ian - January 13, 2009 1:55 AM
i really really want to die on that
30. Dandii - January 13, 2009 1:57 AM
Very cool high res photos of it:
http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=17487
31. Shawarma - January 13, 2009 2:32 AM
Even cooler pictures of it here:
www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com
32. Mr. Sausage - January 13, 2009 7:15 AM
What, is there something like this in Mexico too?
33. Daffy - January 13, 2009 7:54 AM
@daisy
i believe you're refering to "dusk till dawn" not never back down. phail
34. SKiL - January 13, 2009 7:56 AM
It's like the final level in some Mario game.
35. eggs - January 13, 2009 8:21 AM
I'll say his amygdala is beyond repair. Hats off to him anyway.
36. D Rock - January 13, 2009 9:01 AM
Just like Uncharted!
37. OogieNoogie - January 13, 2009 9:03 AM
Dayyyuuum. Wouldn't the missing pathway and lack of handrails just scream 'turn back now'? Scares me just watching it.
38. mike - January 13, 2009 9:19 AM
too bad he was a counter-terrorist and didn't make it to disarm the bomb in time...
39. Spam Artist - January 13, 2009 11:29 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is almost a direct copy of a scene from the movie Tender Dracula. Dracula works on a golf course and is taunted frequently by a gopher. Greg Evigan from My Two Dads solves Dracula's problem by 'adopting' the gopher.
40. john - January 13, 2009 12:18 PM
I was ok with it until the f***ing broken parts where the "trail" becomes a f***ing balance beam 3,000 feet above the ground.
sry, f*** that. when you have twelve feet of broken path then I don't think so.
41. SiGee - January 13, 2009 12:32 PM
OMFG
42. mensa - January 13, 2009 12:38 PM
whatever, i grew up in alaska, i've climbed worse. all of you are pussies.
43. will.i.am. - January 13, 2009 12:59 PM
does anyone know WHERE this so called hiking trail is??
44. SiGee - January 13, 2009 1:45 PM
@43
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Camino_del_Rey
45. Mr. Sausage - January 13, 2009 4:32 PM
@43 Maybe it's in Mexico or something.
46. Steven Schiavone - January 13, 2009 6:37 PM
Prince of Persia much looks like a blast can't wait (parachute just in case we get any really wild ideas)
47. crashbaby - January 13, 2009 9:17 PM
unless you are doctor jones sending mola ram to meet kali in hell f*** THAT.
48. Renard - January 13, 2009 9:56 PM
Camino Del Ray..pff. I laugh.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huashan
49. dain_ger - January 13, 2009 11:38 PM
Prince of Persia? Pfft. Mario??? You're kidding me, right?
This would be awesome to play in Mirrors edge!
Especially after watching how fast that dude was going! Can someone at EA please make this a DLC level!?!?!?
50. bETO - January 15, 2009 9:33 AM
OMFG:
"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 and the wire that follows most of the path. One can latch onto a safety-wire to keep from falling. Several people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years; after four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000"
51. Colar - January 15, 2009 1:13 PM
This video has been removed due to terms of use violation :(
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53. Jack Sand - October 21, 2009 6:13 AM
The 3 who died together in 2000 were extremely stupid--they went in some basket across the gorge thinking it would hold all 3-forgetting that the trail is 70 years old and time and the elements corroded the cable--it snapped--killing all 3--the spanish government has since destroyed the beginning as well as end and have removed sections throughout---what would it be like to be up there in a raging storm?