Something a bit scary and a lot fun two girls did on Huashan/Hua Mountain (华山) in Shaanxi province, China.
The Vast Sky Plank Walk is often refereed as the world's most dangerous hike. (Safety harness have only been used since 2005, though). You have to climb a ladder that's nothing more steel rods driven into a crack in the rock, and walk on planks a foot wide along the edge of a cliff dropping thousands of meters, and in places put trust in footholds carved into the rock.
Its more fun than scary!
Hua Mountain is the western mountain of China's Five Sacred Taoist Mountains, and has a long history of religious significance. Originally classified as having three peaks, in modern times the mountain is classified as five main peaks, of which the highest is the South Peak at 2154.9m.
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Berta Tilmantaitė
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