World’s Most Dangerous Hike
By Rocky Thompson on October 26th, 2007
According to the Japanese news report, about 100 people fall to their death on the Mt. Hua hike each year. I have to take this website’s word since I can’t understand anything from the news report, but I can’t believe that 100 people die each year and they don’t shut it down. About halfway through the video they show a woman down climbing 20 meters on a chain from one tiny ledge to another. Sometimes I glad that America is the land of liability.
via Japan Probe
Nice video. So I speak Japanese and Chinese and just to clarify…the mountain is in China somewhere and they said over 800,000 people visit the mountain each year. I don’t think this would fly in Japan either, but China is a little old-school and they let their comrades do whatever they want. When they asked the guide why they still climb up here when 100 people die each year he said that it has been a holy mountain for over a 1000 years and it was necessary to let people come experience this sacred rite.
What a bunch of kooks!
it’s like Angel’s Landing on crack (in Zion National Park)
So if that’s approximately 1 every 3 or 4 days, they must be piling up somewhere! I wonder if they happen one at a time or if there are days where one person slips and knocks another 7 off the chain on the way down.
I wouldn’t worry though, they probably don’t actually die, if I remember my history correctly from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon when you leap off of a holy mountain you actually just glide off into the clouds like a flying squirrel.