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Tuesday May 27, 2003: Zion Nat.Park (UT)
WARNING : this text has been translated automatically from french
(in the course of drafting...)
The way skirts the side of the rock with the chasm on our line and for only insurance a chain which one holds with the hand. To stick our body to the wall and especially not to look in bottom in order to avoid any giddiness!
Our misfortune is included/understood when the continuation of the way is seen: the chain guides us on an edge of less than 1 meter broad per place, footbridge precarious on this 800 height meters vertical section. More question of looking about the sides because the bottom of the pit is everywhere.
At the bottom of the valley drank them seem fourmies. One sees the climbing ones with semi-rise, they are tiny and give the dimension of the unit.
One stops to eat on a small island from some 5 m². One assied well in the medium and one makes sure that the back bags and the food will slip and will not fall ½ lower mile.
One continues or one gives up? I convince Carole to advance still a little. In turn it is climbing, clutching with the rock, careful projection along the chain. The face of Carole is liquified, its legs tremble. I prefer to go down again to 2 that to see it falling the top of Angel Landing, I thus decide to give up! One takes a last photograph, proof of our rise to the small died tree, and vertiginous sight on the valley of Zion.
The indications of the chart of excursion indicated "Very streanuous", I thought that the persons in charge for the park exaggerated the difficulty because addressing to the basic American poor. And well not, there are the same direction of the dangerosity and they had not been mistaken, this walk is "prone to giddinesses, etc...
(in the course of drafting...)
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