Hello Top Tenners!
Do you want to take a walk on the wild side?
I hope so!
I am Rebecca Felgate and today we’re talking the top 10 craziest public walk ways!
10 - Coiling Dragon Glass Walk Way Who wants to walk 100 meters off the side
of a sheer cliff face?
Oh…sign me up!
The Coiling Dragon path not only has an excellent name, it is also not for the fainthearted.
The path is just 1.6 meters wide and contains snaking 99 turns!
The glass bridge is definitely a craze sweeping china and allows spectacular views….especially
of the long drop to the bottom of the mountain.
But don’t worry, the glass is unbreakable….apparently.
This walk way is so high it is above the clouds!
9 - Kinzua Bridge This is the first of two public walk ways
I have enjoyed in this list so far… the Kinzua Bridge in Pennsylvania is a walk on
a fallen down viaduct that was taken down by a hurricane in 2002.
Part of the bridge has been restored so you can walk on it and overlook the destruction.
The state of Pennsylvania has also left parts of the fallen down bridge so you can just
walk right up to huge pieces of twisted metal…you can even climb on them if you want… but
be safe!
On the bridge itself you can look down the 300 foot drop through the valley on a piece
of strong glass.
8 - Hanging Bamboo Bridge in Arunachal Pradesh in India.
Blimey, India has some intense bridges….
Much of the country lives in poverty and the government does not have enough money to build
the infrastructure that some areas and provinces really need.
Sights like this hanging bamboo bridge over the Siang River are common…and while they
are dangerous, they do offer thrill seekers a chance to walk on the wild side.
Apparently the bridge was built by local villagers in order to cross the river and create a easier
travel route through the hilly areas.
7- Caminito del Rey in Spain Translated as The Kings Little Path Way, The
Caminito is a beautiful but stomach seizing walk way that winds through limestone cliffs
through an abandoned valley settlement and into the village of EL Chorro.
The walkway was recently reopened in 2015 after reconstruction.
There is an awesome video of the walkway in its pre-revived state on the Expert Vagabond
Youtube Channel which shows the walkway in decay.
The path opened in 1900 but was unmanned since the 1920s, being left to deteriorate over
the next 90 years – indeed several people lost their life when bad footing meant they
fell.
Now reopened, the walkway is safer but still terrifying at 328ft high, bridging gorges
and gushing rivers.
It looks beautiful.
6 – Trift Bridge in the Swiss Alps Ooh my!
This bridge looks both awesome and terrifying, The bridge hangs 170 meters over a glacier
valley, linking Alpine mountain trails.
The bridge is the longest pedestrian bridge in the alps and is 328 feet high.
Views from the bridge are spectacular…
This bridge took just 6 weeks to build, which is pretty scary, the story behind it is even
scarier.
This bridge was built in the response to glacial ice melting – the gap between mountains
used to be accessible on foot but now there is a pool of water making it impossible.
5 - Dragon’s Wall rope bridge in Mondsee, Austria.
The rope bridge at Dragons Wall near Salzburg looks pretty intense but exhilarating at the
very same time.
You can only cross this bridge safely in climbing gear, and just looking at it turns my legs
to jelly.
Its so open and exposed…..The highest point of the trail that includes crossing this bridge
is three thousand four hundred and ninety feet up.
Crikey. 4 - Crib Goch, Wales
Ah, the second insane walk way on this list I have walked on, and my goodness it was intense.
I also think saying I “walked” on it is a bit of a stretch….
I sort of clung to it and hobbled.
A free and totally open to the public way to walk to the top of Mount Snowdon in the
United Kingdom, Crib Goch can be hairy!
The walk involves traversing a knife edge ridge, which is pretty terrifying.
Crib Goch is 3000 ft above sea level.
3 - Angels Landing, Utah, USA The Angels Landing Walk way is in the Zion
National Park in Utah and at times includes a sheer 2000ft drop on each side of the path.
The 5 mile walk includes chains that pedestrians can hold on to…slash cling on to for dear
life.
Despite the danger, I would love to walk along this walk way as it would be a beautiful glimpse
back in time – the rocks the path weaves through are 270 million years old.
The sheer drops are one thing, you should never walk along this path in a storm as lightning
will strike.
Eep.
A second installment from our mate China, who may or may not have the craziest roads
in the entire world.
At number 2 we have the Chang Kong Cliff Road.
Situated in the Shaanxi province, the extreeeeeemely narrow walkway is made of one foot wide wooden
slats nailed into the Huashan mountains face.
The path was built 700 years ago and religious pilgrims use to find peace and spirituality
in the mountains.
There would be a lot of preying involved in walking this footpath.
Sure, you can hold on to safety chains, but one wrong foot, and you’d fall over 6 thousand
feet to your death.
Not ideal.
Keeping it in China for number 1….
Great Wall of China!
I mean….how insane is it that you can cross an ancient structure that dates back to 206
BC!
The main part of the wall was built between 1368 and 1644, but still, you’re literally
walking on history.
Some parts are better maintained than others but it is very possible that you can walk
8 thousand 500 kilometers along one walk way, overlooking vast swathes of the Chinese countryside
as you do so.
In 2007, an American couple walked the entirety of the wall in 10 months.
What a dream.
SO!
That was the top 10 craziest public walk ways!
Would you walk over any of these?
What is the scariest walk you have ever taken or the most thrill seeking thing you have
ever done?