Grande Fistoire iron path - Le Caire, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | Video
Because I lost the footage I made the first time (don't buy SD cards from Alibaba!), at the end of June I visited this great and exciting via ferrata again. It has a 59-meter long suspension bridge (one of the longest in the Alps), at 200 m height, and a 32-meter long, uncomfortably swinging Nepalese bridge. Read more
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Airport nearby: Valence-Chabeuil Airport (LFLU - Chabeuil, Fr), 106 km away.
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