If you’re an adventure seeker, these are some of the most dangerous tourist spots on the planet you need to know about! From the sweltering heat of Death Valley in California to the freezing cold of Mount Everest, these places are not for the faint-hearted. Then there’s Bolivia’s “Death Road,” a narrow mountain path with dizzying drops, where just one wrong move could be your last. In Brazil, you have Snake Island, filled with one of the deadliest snake species in the world—definitely not your typical vacation spot! These places might be breathtaking, but they come with serious risks! Credit: Everest / Working Title Films, RVK Studios, Walden Media, Universal Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures 1.-historia2b-VÍA-diario-sur: By Libe_reharq, https://flic.kr/p/ZzyRgx Red Bull / YouTube CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/: Kingspath: By Dreol - https://web.archive.org/web/20161014094944/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/20365929, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52434247 Red Bull Cliff Diving: By Jean-Pierre Bazard Jpbazard, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50561857 CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0: Mingma Gyab Sherpa: By Iamthanes, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108194500 Mingma David Sherpa: By Azayrocks, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109106244 Caminito del Rey: By Diego Delso, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149982428 Desfiladero de los Gaitanes05: By Tanja Freibott, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59404107 Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.
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00:00This tourist destination has the highest entrance price of all.
00:04It could cost you your life.
00:06Those who spend over 16 hours in the Death Zone, and it is the official name of the most
00:12dangerous area on Mount Everest, risk never returning home.
00:17Those who endure 48 hours there will almost certainly never see their families again.
00:23The altitude in this region is over 26,000 feet, and winds can reach speeds of 62 miles
00:29per hour, sweeping everything, including you, off their path.
00:34Only one person has stood tall in this hostile environment for 90 hours, as it was with supplemental
00:41oxygen.
00:42Yep, the precious O2 gas is extremely scarce there.
00:46Without this vital resource, the maximum time someone can survive is about 21 hours, a record
00:53set by this guy.
00:54Yeah, he was tough.
00:56He reached the Everest peak 10 times.
00:59His fastest ascent took slightly under 17 hours, but Pemba broke his record, ascending
01:04Everest in 8 hours and 10 minutes.
01:07However, these accomplishments are not feats for the average Joe.
01:12These record holders have, in a sense, won a genetic lottery.
01:16Both are Nepali Sherpas, hence the names.
01:19Mountains are native to the mountains and have evolved a natural resistance to high
01:23altitude living.
01:26Despite the undeniable dangers, people seem unwilling to stop visiting the death zone.
01:32Since the establishment of climbing records, over 300 people have lost their lives there.
01:38Last year alone, 18 people perished, and as of July 2024, the death zone has claimed 8
01:45lives.
01:46As creepy as it may sound, the death zone on Mount Everest resembles a graveyard.
01:51The challenge lies in that recovering a body from this perilous location costs families
01:57a fortune.
01:59Oxygen alone, which is necessary to descend a body, can amount to as much as $20,000.
02:05This may seem far-fetched, but the operation requires 12 people, each needing an oxygen
02:11cylinder that costs around $400.
02:14So do the math.
02:16And it's not just the oxygen, imagine the other expenses summed up.
02:20Still, it's not only the money.
02:23The retrieval process is fraught with danger for those tasked with it, causing many private
02:28companies to decline such requests.
02:31Recently, authorities managed to recover 4 bodies and a skeleton from the treacherous
02:36area.
02:37While not all of them have been identified, one body belonged to an individual who passed
02:43away in 2017, remaining in the death zone for 7 years.
02:49El Caminito del Rey in Spain, Maluga, may look like child's play compared to Everest's
02:55death zone, as, reportedly, it has only claimed 6 lives.
03:00But still, this is eerie.
03:02Imagine you're standing on an old piece of wood, some people dare to call a walkway,
03:08that seems to be about to fall apart.
03:11You can't really move freely on it, as it's just 3 feet wide.
03:15And if you look down, you'll see nothing but a river 330 feet below you.
03:21You may want to sarcastically call it an engineering wonder, but in reality, it really is.
03:27Look, it seems like this walkway was glued to the side of a cliff.
03:32The tools and technique used to build it were quite rudimentary and unsafe, which is not
03:38surprising.
03:39This pathway is over a century old.
03:42If you're wondering how it was built without any machinery we have today, let me explain.
03:48The poor builders just hung off the side of the mountain using ropes.
03:52It's obvious no one wanted to work on that project, so prisoners who had received the
03:57death penalty were invited to participate.
04:01In exchange, they could get a reduction in their sentences, if they made it out alive,
04:06of course.
04:07Now, originally, the walkway was built to connect workers at the hydroelectric power
04:11plants by some local waterfalls.
04:14You know, just a little bridge to help them cross while transporting materials and keeping
04:19things in check at the channel.
04:21The construction kicked off in 1901 and wrapped up by 1905.
04:27The walkway was famously crossed by King Alfonso XIII in 1921 during the inauguration of a
04:34dam.
04:35This pathway has seen some rough times by the early 2000s and was partly closed for
04:41over a decade.
04:43Four years of renovations and 9 million euros later, it burst back onto the scene in 2015.
04:50It has gained a reputation as the world's most dangerous walkway due to a couple of
04:54tragic accidents in the late 90s.
04:57Now you can stroll along a 1.8-mile path that hugs the edge of the gorge.
05:04Hey, remember I told you this Caminito only took 6 lives?
05:08Forget it.
05:09Nobody knows how much it really was.
05:12Alright, the next cliff destination may seem totally safe at first glance, but it's all
05:18about a very particular activity performed there.
05:22It's definitely not as high up in the sky as El Caminito del Rey, only soaring 89 feet,
05:29but this cliff is meant to jump from, and people actually do that.
05:33Now, if you were to take a watermelon and give it a dramatic drop into the water below,
05:39you'd end up with a spectacular crimson splash of watermelon juice, looking like a
05:44crime scene.
05:46It would plummet at a wild speed of 53 mph, and it begs the question, can a human handle
05:52that kind of dive?
05:54Spoiler alert, absolutely.
05:56Welcome to Red Bull Cliff Diving, where brave athletes take the plunge from heights equivalent
06:02to an 8-story building.
06:04But before you think about trying this for kicks, let me tell you, it takes serious fitness
06:09to pull it off.
06:11The better your shape is, the better your dive, but it's also all about your peepers.
06:16Your eyes become your ultimate navigation system as you make that fearless leap.
06:21Fearless?
06:22Haha.
06:23The impact is no joke.
06:26If you dare to jump, you'll feel around 5 g-force on impact.
06:30For comparison, when you're on a commercial flight, even during the craziest turbulence,
06:35you rarely feel more than 1.3 g-force.
06:39But when you dive from a cliff, your heart's working overtime, and that 5 g-force can leave
06:44you lightheaded in no time.
06:47Your brain starts to feel a bit oxygen-starved, and before you know it, you could black out
06:51in a few seconds.
06:53All that blood suddenly rushes to your head, your face puffs up, and your lower eyelids
06:58practically cover your eyes.
07:00This phenomenon is called red-out, because all you see is a bright glow through those
07:05squeeze-shut eyelids.
07:07Yeah, that sounds like fun.
07:09Unlike all those cliffs, this place is pretty accessible, and it's popular among freedivers
07:15for having little current, which is good when you go in-depth.
07:19However, despite all those seemingly nice aspects of the Blue Hole in Egypt, this place
07:26has taken around 200 lives in recent years.
07:29To be honest, technically, the Blue Hole is a complete average dive spot.
07:34There's nothing extraordinary that would make it more dangerous than any other spot
07:39in the Red Sea.
07:40However, diving through the arch at the Blue Hole is no joke.
07:45It's a tricky, submerged tunnel that has seen its fair share of accidents.
07:50While there's no official count of how many have lost their lives here, one source estimates
07:56that around 130 divers perished there between 1997 and 2012.
08:02That's more than 8 each year.
08:04Some say the number could be as high as 200, including a few snorkel-related accidents
08:09not tied to the arch dive.
08:12To help keep things safe, Egyptian authorities placed a police officer at the Blue Hole who
08:18makes sure divers are with certified guides who know the ropes.
08:23Now the arch itself sits 170 feet down, which means you really need to know what you're
08:30doing and have the right gear since recreational divers usually max out at around 100 feet
08:36or so.
08:37For experienced technical divers, it's mostly manageable.
08:40The real challenge is keeping track of your air in your tank because if you mess up and
08:46take too long down there, you're going to need more than one tank of air to get through
08:50safely.
08:51If the gas isn't planned out right, you could find yourself short on air when you
08:56need to do your decompression stuffs.
08:58Or even worse, you can run out of it completely.
09:02And you know, that would be bad.
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