This Is the Most Dangerous Hike in the World

Only the brave would even attempt this hike. Mount Huashan, the steep five-peaked mountain in China, is said to kill 100 hikers a year. What deathtraps would await you on this mountain? And what's the safest way to make it to the summit on this hike?

00:00 Mount Huashan
00:40 Five sacred mountains
01:20 1. Language
02:00 2. Choose wisely
02:43 3. Wear your harness
03:16 4. Contact
03:29 5. West is best

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[Road_Rash]

How to survive: stay on the ground & watch everyone else do it... I can't even watch the video...sends my anxiety through the roof...

[troywillis]

I'm checking this off my bucket list...this video counts!

[Laiba.xoxooo]

This is insane! Salute to the workers who made this structure.

[stikfigzz]

Imagine the people that had to install the planks and safety cable

[psvlryc]

Some 30 years ago, I walked along for hiking Huashan. Upon my arrival to the foot of this mountain, it was rainning .
After 4 hours, before reaching those dangerous points, I decided to give up as the rain never stop !
Now, I'm over 70, not able to hike it again.

[tonyalynne]

Who's laying in bed watching this with extremely sweaty hands that can barely hold your phone??? 🎉😂

[shaoqingan]

i am 57 years old now living in USA. 1984, I was a university student in Xi'an, wich is about 150km west to this mountain, made my first trip in that year. In order to save time and money, people often climbed in the eveving, in that way, they would not need to wait in the very cold night, and could avoid hotel fees. The time they reached the East peak was just the time to see the sun came went above the horizon. During those years, some of the iron chains were not even there. I totally made 5 trips in my 13 years living there. My university class mate and his girl friend died there in the last week of our 4 years universtiy life. They climbed the mountain to memorize their 4 years life in this province. But unfortunately, the couple were killed in the storm flooding happened in this mountain. It was said that more than 50 people had been killed in that storm. May my classmate and his girl friend rest in peace.
The scenery is beatiful there, but the mountain is rearlly dangerous. Some depressed people even like to choose this mountain as a suicide place. I am now surprised by my 5 climbings and stupidity during those years.

[SidewalkCitizenLA]

So glad to see this! With my vertigo triggered by the video alone, this does NOT go on the Bucket List!

[legendaryedu]

Parent's be like this is how we went to school or groceries shopping back in the days lol

[qawwal]

I ve been there with my brothers in 2005!!! It was tiring uphill and worst down hill with your legs shivering alone when you stop for a moment. That was an experience !!!

[goutham]

Forget about going on a hike, I don't have acrophobia but just watching them took my breath way 😱😱

[Sticky-User]

"Life is short, make it shorter" - Sun Chu

[brianmurphy]

An anxiety inducing clip! Watching this made me feel like I was going to fall off the edge even though I am sitting comfortably my chair. Hard no!

[richardashmore]

Looks absolutely terrifying, particularly the part where you will be going one way and others coming back over that tiny walkway. No, thank you.

[NormalGuy]

Just watching this gives my crazy anxiety, no way I’m going there, I have a severe fear of heights,

[tileux]

Ive been up various parts of these mountains. It kills your legs. I dont normally get vertigo but it hit me badly twice on this. In the end my wife didnt want to go any further so we went back down. Unfortunately, going down is in some ways worse than going up, so if youre thinking of doing this bear that in mind. And be in some sort of good physical condition, because if youre not you’ll probably feel it badly.

I dont think that many people die up these mountains. Thats the really amazing bit. Because when you see it for real you think ‘how are people not falling off this non-stop?’. But somehow they dont.

By the way, when i did this there was a young chinese girl, maybe early 20s, who did it in high heels - yep.

[carolz]

I'd never understand why someone would do this voluntarily....

[summer]

That plank trail constructed hundreds of years ago looks incredible

[judychen]

华山的长空栈道。I went to university in Xi'an and went to HuaShan mountain 7 times, climb up at night to watch sun rise, go down during the day time, the next day still go to class like nothing has happened. At that time, there is no safety gears on the trail, there is a pine tree at the end of the trail, climb to the tree to have a break. I cannot image how I could do that. Now my legs cannot help shaking even just by looking .... actually I remembered I scraed of another trail in the same mountain more, it's called 鹞子翻身， going down with the angel greater than 90 degree, feel every step down is stepping into the cliff, every step needs to explore where to land I only went there once on my 7 times visit because I was way too terrified ....

[ymhktravel]

Just a small correction. Mount means mountain which is 山 (shan) in Chinese. So it's suffice to just say "Mount Hua" or "Huashan" . Mt Huashan would seem like a repetition of the word mountain. But I'm incline to say "Huashan" because that's what locals will know esp when asking for direction.