Caminito del Rey . North Access
Cliffside boardwalk bolted to a gorge wall, starting gate for a river canyon path patrolled by griffon vultures.
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This guide to Caminito del Rey's north access in Málaga follows the griffon vultures that have circled this gorge for centuries, and the laborers who built the walkway hanging beneath them. Between 1901 and 1905, workers for the Chorro Hydroelectric Society, some of them sailors from Málaga, dangled from ropes to hammer planks into a cliff barely ten meters wide and hundreds of meters deep, moving men and equipment between two waterfalls. Look up before your first step, at the north gate where those workers began: if a vulture is riding the wind above the ravine, you're watching the one local resident who never needed a handrail here.
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