As wonderful as Chinese tea is, it is definitely not something you’d closely associate with exhilaration, adrenaline and the fear of death. Mt. Huashan in China, however, manages to bring all of these things together by featuring a death-defying cliff-side mountain climb that brings daring visitors to a tea house 2,160 m (7,087 ft) up on the mountain’s southern peak.
Mt. Huashan has been a place of religious importance since at least the 2nd century BCE, when a Daoist temple was established at its base. Since then, pilgrims, monks and nuns have inhabited the mountain and the surrounding area. A network of dangerous and precipitous trails allows them to access the mountain’s five summits, each of which has a religious structure like the tea house on the southern summit. Together, these five summits form the points of a flower shape.
I don’t do heights very well – I get a visceral reaction when I’m too close to the edge – and this insane video spooked me just by watching it.
[Image found here. More info & pics here.]
Tacky Raccoons 
Why no hand rails on theses walk ways? I wonder if it had to do with comeies not caring about life?
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The path predates communism by several thousand years.
I looked for a cable or a “lucky chain” along the wall, but I don’t see one in that photo. Tourists are warned that some of the passes are dangerous and, although no records are kept, one estimate has the death toll at 100 per year. More about the Mt. Huashan trail here:
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/shaanxi/xian/mt_huashan.htm
There’s a similar mountain pass in Spain called El Caminito del Rey that’s in disrepair and is closed to the public.
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