Scariest path in the world....

[N7YA]

Its the dying part of that hike that i want to avoid.

[n2ize]

Its the dying part of that hike that i want to avoid.

I don;t blame you. But it's the thrill of the risk that makes it fun. The whole idea that it's very dangerous and one wrong move or slip up can lead to death. It is the idea of challenging death, gambling with death that makes life fun.

[W1GUH]

I don;t blame you. But it's the thrill of the risk that makes it fun. The whole idea that it's very dangerous and one wrong move or slip up can lead to death. It is the idea of challenging death, gambling with death that makes life fun.

Funny you should talk like that just now. A couple of days ago I was watching a cable channel show about Alaska, and there was a segment about hiking on the glaciers solo on Denali. They were intervieiwing a solo glacier hiker and he was talking just like you are - from the comfort of your home. He sounded like he got off on the risk -- there's lots of ways to die on a glacier.

THEN...as he was hiking, he discovered a body up there. It was a hiker who had disappeared some years before, and the hiker who spotted it saw the boots of the deceased. That really turned his head around. He has sworn off solo glacier hiking for good. Said the immediacy of seeing what could have happend to that guy drove home the stupidity of taking unnecessary risks. There's better ways to get one's "risk" rocks off.

That path is one big accident waiting to happen.

[n2ize]

Funny you should talk like that just now. A couple of days ago I was watching a cable channel show about Alaska, and there was a segment about hiking on the glaciers solo on Denali. They were intervieiwing a solo glacier hiker and he was talking just like you are - from the comfort of your home. He sounded like he got off on the risk -- there's lots of ways to die on a glacier.

This is more common than many people realize. Those who hike particularly trecherous areas, such as very high mountains, glaciers, or very remote wilderness areas occasionally find the bodies of hikers who were lost or injured, or the remnants of lost planes that went down and were never recovered, often with the skeletons of the dead still among the wreckage.

Case and point. There is a remote area I hiked in the Adirondacks way back in the early 1990's. About a year later I heard that the remains of a lost plane with the skeleton of it's occupant were found by a hiker. Apparently the plane took off from Quebec one evening back in the early 1980's. It disappeared from the radar somewhere over Vermont. Searches at the time all turned up negative. 10 years later this hiker just happens to find it partly suspended in the trees along a trail in a remote high peaks region of New York's Adirondacks.

THEN...as he was hiking, he discovered a body up there. It was a hiker who had disappeared some years before, and the hiker who spotted it saw the boots of the deceased. That really turned his head around. He has sworn off solo glacier hiking for good. Said the immediacy of seeing what could have happend to that guy drove home the stupidity of taking unnecessary risks. There's better ways to get one's "risk" rocks off.

All risks are "unnecessary". That's what makes them fun. You are pitting yourself against death, gambling with the Grim Reaper. It's like the utmost thrill a person can experience. Of course you take as many safety precautions, you don't go about it with the intention of throwing your life away. Suicide is not fun. You approach it with confidence, that you are not going to die and you take all possible precautions. But there is still a danger and a true risk and that is what makes it worth while.

That path is one big accident waiting to happen.

True. And if you are out of shape and/or you just go walk it like an ordinary sidewalk you will likely get killed. But if you take precautions and properly anchor yourself in trecherous parts you will more than likely survive. And, get to see some awesome kick ass scenery in the process.

[N7YA]

I don;t blame you. But it's the thrill of the risk that makes it fun. The whole idea that it's very dangerous and one wrong move or slip up can lead to death. It is the idea of challenging death, gambling with death that makes life fun.

I wont disagree at all! Ive hiked and camped on Alaskan glaciers and frozen rivers...wouldnt trade the experience for anything, just dont think i would do that cliffside hike anytime soon.

[n2ize]

I wont disagree at all! Ive hiked and camped on Alaskan glaciers and frozen rivers...wouldnt trade the experience for anything, just dont think i would do that cliffside hike anytime soon.

Perhaps the thing that makes this particular walk particularly scary is the fact that it runs along a man made structure that has deteriorated considerably. Kind of like walking through a building that has been abandoned and exposed to the elements for a few decades. The floor may look okay, it may hold but then again it may not and you may find yourself rapidly accelerating from the top floor to the ground floor or basement.