Tightrope Walking Over This New Zealand Waterfall Will Give You Serious Vertigo
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This insane high ropes course will give you serious vertigo – and make you want to strap on a harness and start the climb immediately.
Wildwire Wanaka is an adventure park on New Zealand’s South Island, where adrenaline junkies can scramble up cliffs, rappel through waterfalls and tightrope over deep gorges. Tell us this thrill-seeking playground isn’t calling your name.
Wildwire Wanaka’s most intense climb is “Lord of the Rungs.”
It’s an entire 3,280 feet of iron cables, through/around/under/above Twin Falls.
You gotta be an experienced adventurer.
The website describes brave climbers as “fit adventure seekers.”
You’ll ascend 3,280 feet.
Including a 1,475-foot vertical climb.
The climb crosses steel rungs, tightropes and wire bridges.
There’s one 115-foot stretch where you pull yourself across a gorge with a pulley system.
The course takes 7 hours to complete.
You have to be “able to scramble on hilly terrain for 5-7 hours.”
The path leads behind a 190-foot waterfall.
You’ll be all over Twin Falls.
The ropes course is a via ferrata system.
It literally means “iron road.”
You’re basically following army-level paths.
The systems were originally used in World War II to help troops cross steep mountains.
You fly to the adventure site via helicopter.
You know, in case a climbing course isn’t enough heights for you.
If you’re not feeling dizzy from the sight of those tightropes, you’re a brave soul. And should probably book a Wanaka climb. Just watch how the insane experience comes together.
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