Received this as an email, not sure if real or not yet in anycase....Kewl!

Try a mountain trail stroll in China .
1st - Let's take the tram up to the start of the trail.


Follow the path.


Be sure to hold on to the railing.


Keep an eye on the person in front of you.


Be very careful when passing someone going in the opposite direction.


Now just up a few steps. (They are on the left in the picture)


Getsa little steeper here - so put your toes in the holes.


A few more steps to go.


Finally insight, the Teahouse!

It looks real, but it also looks insane. Surely people have fallen off! That would never be allowed for the average person here.

zZzZ thats not interesting. whats the challenge?
even a wheelchair could go there.


ah just kidding. looks kinda riski to me.

but if you are british i understand. i mean.
everything for tea right?

I don't like heights. Just looking at those pics makes me feel very uncomfortable.

But most interesting nonetheless.

Good gods!

My other half's an archeologist who spent a bit of time in China a couple of years ago. She noted the profusion of locks attached to the cables and said she'd seen a Buddhist temple in Chengde that was groaning under the weight of locks, they were some sort of religious devotion.

Up there you'd definately want at least one god on your side.

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Originally posted by blairgowrie:
I don't like heights. Just looking at those pics makes me feel very uncomfortable.

But most interesting nonetheless.

Same here. When we went to the Grand Canyon we decided it would be a great idea to go onto a little miniature platform hanging over the edge several thousand feet about the canyon floor... I almost imploded when I looked down.

And strangely enough I am fascinated with planes, and have never gotten queasy looking down from planes.

I don't like heights either. But if I was there that would be irresistible to me. If I didn't go I'd come home and think about it for the rest of my life and regret it. So I would have to do it.

Maybe when I was 15 and thought I was immortal.

I think it is having a seat under our posteriors and being inside a tube which removes some of the dread of heights, Divine-Wind. Flying never bothered me for years, but, by my last trans-Atlantic ('95), I was terrified. Hate flying in airliners now. Probably would not feel this way in a AT-6.

Imagine visting China one day and your chinese friends say:

"Would you like to visit a very special temple that our people highly respect?"

"Yea, sure."

"It`s high up a cliffside."

"so it`ll be a bit of a steep climb then?

"Yes, but do not worry... Everyone does it!"


And then you find yourself having to sidle along those planks holding onto just a chain, thinking, "Why oh why didn`t they mention this bit?" As your hands and legs begin to tremble.

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Originally posted by LEBillfish:

Actually, I`m glad Billfish posted this cos it`s great stuff to add for my work, especially if real.

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Originally posted by Divine-Wind:
....And strangely enough I am fascinated with planes, and have never gotten queasy looking down from planes.

As you're surrounded by the plane....Also you may find the same experience skydiving, as when you do it, it seems so surreal it just doesn't register like being say 50' from the ground.

Yet on a climb the ground is right there, just falling away fast

Aye.

There does come a moment when it stops being either fun, dull or stimulating and starts to become terrifying. In the past I've jumped out of planes and not really thought too much of it, but now, I'm a white knuckler and find the whole experience quite stressful.

lmao

I've skydived, hang-glided, still a certified SCUBA diver, and done a bit of mountain-climbing/hiking while in Colorado...but that's just off the hook.

Thats The same for me DW, never could convince people of that, they thought I was kidding, but only as I got older!

When I was a kid, they called me a mountain goat when on hunting trips.

A few years ago I bought an ultralight, was haveing a good time till I hit a gust of wind, I just about sh_t my pants! I thought it was going to chuck me out, in spite of the belts.

Now I tell people "I like rideing in planes, not on them"

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Originally posted by Ploughman:
There does come a moment when it stops being either fun, dull or stimulating and starts to become terrifying. In the past I've jumped out of planes and not really thought too much of it, but now, I'm a white knuckler and find the whole experience quite stressful.

Better man than I, Gunga-PM. I would only jump out of an airplane as a last resort!

You ever go up to the nipple on the top of St Paul's in London? There'se a metal staircase in the dome section, I was so overwhelmed by vertigo I crawled up it on my hands and knees.

Compared to that, and getting a cup of tea in China, jumping out of a plane is easy.

Hmmmm, maybe after several tinctures of laudanum I'll try the parachute gambit... Never did the St Paul's---my vertigo threshold is very low.

Maybe we just don't trust our hands and feet as much when we get older!

Awesome!

I did something like that back in the 90's in Spain. (man, I've must have been out of my mind!)


It's called El Chorro Gorge. In english The King's path. But that was nothing compared to this chinese thing!

Wonder if the employees take the elevator that MUST run up the backside