Today we are going to be climbing two of China's most unique via. We'll start with the world's scariest ladder. Your body really can't even comprehend a 5,000 ft drop. This is China's sky ladder. It was completed less than a year ago, and it's officially the highest ladder in the world. Oh my gosh, I don't think I can get up from this position. Hidden deep in the Avatar Mountains, this 500 ft ladder connects two cliffs. And when you're standing on it, there's nothing but a small metal bar between you and the ground over 5,000 ft below.

What is going on here? I don't like this at all. Charlie almost made it, but having to get rescued. After hopefully conquering the ladder, genuinely don't know if I can do it. We'll make the 5-hour journey to visit what the internet calls the world's most inconvenient convenience store. Almost there. These snacks better be good. This small shop is literally hanging on the side of a cliff. I got bad news. And the only way to get there is by climbing hundreds of feet straight up a rock face. The guy has basically thrown us onto the via with no guide and

extremely little instruction. I'm not having fun yet. So, join us for an adrenalinefilled adventure with lots of laughs. Woo! Wobbly. Charlie was scared of heights, but he's coming. I love it. We are currently on a massive cable car that is taking us to the top of Chi-Sing Mountain where we'll start the first via the long run. Just thinking I find it funny. I would be petrified to walk on a tree like that. It's like me to drop the line. That's enough to get my heartbeating.

All right, we're just getting our first glimpse of the via down below. Oh wow. Oh my gosh, they look tiny. How many meters? I mean, how many meters is that down? 1,500. Wow. 1 and a half km. And it looks it looks like the fjords of Norway where they just drop straight down like a big sheer cliff and there's just five little people with their feet on little metal steps. There's another via that has a big ladder like this in Austria that Car and I did a couple years back and we thought that was the craziest thing that you could ever do, but that ladder was only 120 ft long with a 2,000 ft drop underneath. This one is 500 ft long with

a 5,000 ft drop. So more terrifying in every single way. I almost grabbed his head. At least you got heaps of padding so you'd kind of survive the 1500 m fall. Surely, right? Are you feeling good? Cold and nervous. I can't tell if I'm shaking from one or the other. Uh, sorry. I don't know English. Okay. Well, that's nice. Now, I will explain this to you all using the translation software. Thank goodness we have done this before.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. No. Dangerous. No. Uh, okay. Dangerous. All right. No. Yes. Oh, okay. Charlie's already clipped in while we're standing on the sidewalk. Here we go. So, now I move this to here. Yeah. And then I climb. So, does that silver one never come off? No, the silver one never comes off. It just slides through each gap. It's a good thing we did this. I thought I knew what I was doing. You can step on the line and try. Joey doesn't even want to practice one foot above the ground. My arms are ret. All right. get down the mountain. Like a solid chance I'm going to wipe myself.

Even just the steps to get down there are scary. We haven't even started yet. So, we're actually starting with the ladder first. We're making our way down to the bottom and then we're going to climb the ladder back up. So, they're just really throwing us straight into this. So beautiful. Are you able to take in any of the beauty? No. I'm very focused. Doesn't help that everything's wet. Why are you holding on so tight? All I'm singing in my head is the Mulan song, Be a Man. Oh, having Charlie here is making this five times more fun for me.

Oh, it's like straight up. Oh my god. Holy moly. I'm scared. I am pumped. It looks almost vertical from this angle. That is a person on the ladder. Oh my goodness. What's happening to your knees? It's super hard to explain. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. Oh my god. This is mental. This is the first time we can actually see like from the bottom to the top. It's way longer than I thought it was going to be. I was like, "Oh, a ladder."

Like I've done that before. But I think this is way bigger. Why are you sitting like that? I'm earththing. Charlie's fear is really making me laugh. It's honestly making me feel better. Like he's like carrying my fear. Now it's getting a bit crazier. Stop it. Genuinely don't know if I can do it. I am though genuinely proud of you. Like Charlie has a real fear of heights and he agreed to do this with zero peer pressure. It seemed really fun on the Instagram videos. All right, Charlie's going to test it out. Make sure it's safe. Just remember what you learned in our one minute Chinese instructions.

He's on the ladder. Oh, this is Listen to your body. My body is screaming. Holy. Take a deep breath. Absolutely crushing it. See a little brown spot on your bottom. First step's a bit of a doozy. Woo! Wow. Looking good. It does shake a lot. You got this, Charlie. Oh, the POV. Look at that drop. Oh my goodness. There's just no way to capture what is underneath me right now. Why is it shaking so much? Your body really can't even comprehend a 5,000 ft drop. I think it just started raining. I'm good to go. I'm starting to feel it now. What's your advice?

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Charlie's just yelling curse words at me at the moment. This is the slightly uncomfortable part. This is where you got to move your carabiners. So they have these little black things about every 10 feet. So that way if you were to fall, you'd only slide about 10 ft until you caught, which would um without a doubt be the most terrifying moment of my life. Turning around is so scary. Okay. All right. I sat down. Oh my gosh. I don't think I can get up from this position. Oh gosh. I can't believe how much it's moving. It really adds another element to the fear. I'm so proud of Charlie for doing this cuz I'm I'm freaking out.

No matter how okay you are with heights, your body is just not designed to do this. There's just something primal that makes this feel so wrong. Like there are so many chemicals rushing through my body right now. Guy behind me is quite aggressive, but he was singing Let It Go on from the Frozen movie, so that helped. Also, as far as filming this goes, I bought a necklace from a lady on the street on the way in. So, we'll see how this goes. It was a dollar and now it's my phone is just dangling from my neck 5,000 ft in the air. It just keeps going. I bet we've been on the ladder for almost 30 minutes at this point. I feel like I'm going to be exhausted after this. Not because it's

physically challenging, but just from having so much adrenaline coursing through my body. Hopefully the drone footage gives you a little bit better perspective cuz looking down at my feet does not do the drop justice. I don't even think I'm halfway and it feels like I've been climbing forever. This is like a really long time to be scared and to be tense. My shoulders are killing me. I'm holding on so tight. Charlie, how you doing? The worst thing I've ever done. I have such respect for people who acknowledge their fear and push past it. And I can't think of a more extreme scenario than what Charlie is doing

right now. So Charlie, thanks for being such a good travel friend. Hopefully you can look back on this as type two fun and something that you'll remember with fond memories later. Maybe one day in the distant future. You're crushing it, Cara. Thank you. You never really get used to it. Same level of fear the entire time for me at least. And then I start looking at all the screws and then I start wondering, do they have OSHA in China? I don't know. We're not going to think about that right now. Somebody running up the ladder again. I think the most terrifying part is this ladder really rocks back and forth side to side. Like it almost feels like it can flip over. So I don't actually feel

like I can let go with either hand. So when I'm trying to do stuff like get the GoPro out of my pocket and it shifts around. You get that like that pit in your stomach when it drops. That's happened to me at least 20 times since climbing this ladder. The views are amazing. The problem is when I'm looking up, I'm okay. But as soon as I try to look at the views, I realize how high I am and then I'm not okay. You see how much I'm moving right now? I'm not doing that. Charlie almost made it, but he's having to get rescued. What is going on here? Yeah, keep going. All right. I'm not sure what happened, but two guys in very official uniforms just repelled down onto the ladder. So, now we're having to

pass, which I don't love. As if this wasn't scary enough. You good? He likes his job. Oh, now I have to go around you this way. I don't like this at all. Traffic jam was an exciting way to end it. Nice. I think they must be practicing a rescue or something. But it's an interesting time to practice. I hate this. Like, not the ladder. Just whatever they're doing to the ladder. And they don't speak English, so they can't tell us what's going on. I'm just standing here waiting.

Mom, they're getting out. Can't use them anymore. Are you getting rescued? Holy I don't know if anyone can see how bad this is, but I'm like panicking. You got it. Deep breath. How many hours have we been on this thing? It feels like it's been at least an hour. At least. It didn't get any better when we got off the ladder. We're just climbing on this rebar. Vertical on the cliff, slightly leaning back. It's a workout on the forearms. This is wild. Charlie, is this better or worse than the ladder? That was a no. Nice job, Cara. This is terrible.

Woo! This corner is such a workout because the cliff is leaning backwards and you kind of have to squat down to get to the bars. You're doing great. Oh, this is awful. My forearms were pumped after that section. Woo! Look at this drop. Oh my gosh. Has it gotten any better, Charlie? I literally cannot believe Charlie's doing this. I'm freaking out. How are your hands tired? They don't really like vet you on these things, you know?

You should have had to do a pull-up. Yeah, like they're really I still just can't get over this. That is so wild. I think I hate going down the most. Like I can't see where my feet are going. Honestly, one wrong step. Holy. Sorry, mate. I don't say what's behind there. This one is like I understand. I Charlie's walking the tight rope. Car's coming down from above. Did you know this was here, mate? I had no idea what was here besides the ladder. It's way longer than I thought. The craziest, most wild thing I could ever do. And I'm never doing it again.

I've never known my legs to quit. It's crazy. I feel like I'm back on the ladder. I can feel my legs shaking a little bit. Check that out. Two tiny cables and you're just balancing across. Oh my gosh. You're ducking under. What? Ducking. You think there would be like a sign. It shakes so much. I'm not even trying to do that. This is not instinctual. NONE of it is, but especially not that. You are so brave.

Practicing my Chinese is making this go a lot faster. I need distractions. Tell me a story. I can't believe you just came out here with me. Charlie wouldn't even let me come on the rope with him. I didn't really think about that. I'm just going to pretend that it's wiggly with two. What was the weight limit? There's no signs. Oh, it gets wobblier when you're together. I can't believe you. Wow. Well, you keep going. Most memorable kiss ever. Oh, now we got four people on here. Got to get off of this thing. It's hard to explain just how steep the drop is here. And then we

are literally on a clifftop. This bit is probably the widest bit we've had the entire trip. I'm crouched down hidden from the rain. Final test. Just a casual 100 foot climb down a moving ladder. Can you give me a wave? Oh, that just shows how much better you are. A so much better. I'm so close. One more step to solid ground. So far, two of the three of us have survived. Here's just going to make it down. What an absolute rush.

Are you ready to sing with me? Let it go. anymore. I always with my friend in Kywi about an other song just like this fire starting. No way. What are the chances that the Chinese guy climbing with Karen knows Adele? Oh, what a day. I knew I kept the helmet on for a reason. Tom, thank you. Yes. Thank you very much, dude. You did great. Okay. Tom kept me company. We sang songs together. Whenever I couldn't get my clip to work and I would get flustered, he would say, "Slow is fast."

Yeah. Fast is slow. Okay. Cara can't help but make friends everywhere she goes. better or worse than you thought it was going to be. Right now, way better. Midway through I thought to myself, I would never have agreed to this had I had even like the inkling of how intense it was going to be. I literally halfway through that ladder, I was like, the only thing you can do is to breathe and to keep putting your feet forward. That's a beautiful life lesson. You were crushing it by the end.

Yeah. I feel like a proud mom. For 3 hours, I've been either clinging onto a ladder or literally hanging at an angle with all of my weight like this, trying to get my carabiner and move over to the next one and hope I don't fall cuz one slip and like you're just dangling. It was 3 hours that felt like 15. All right, good job team. I'm so proud of all of us. What a way to end our time in China together. I'm seriously so proud of you. That was I'm proud of all of us. Oh, wow. What a time. I'm just realizing that my face hurts from smiling. That's how you know it's been a good day.

We have a certificate. My proudest. Thank you. Worth it for the certificate. Oh, what's in the box? Thank you. What have we got? Wow. Oh, a trophy. This is And it's heavy. Look at this. This is solid. Oh my gosh. Oh, and mine's pretty colors and yours is blue. All right. Would either of you like to give a speech? Well, I just want to say thank you to Karen Nate for encouraging me even when I said the most nasty things.

Don't cry. I couldn't have been more horrible to them when I was crying. The things I said I didn't mean. I would like to say again how proud I am of Charlie. And also, thank you, Nate, for pushing me out of my comfort zone so I didn't have to be the scarest one for once. And also, cheers to my last via ever. Wow. Been there, done that. Got the trophy. Except for tomorrow. No, this is it for me. Is going to a mine. I quit. Dream bigger, reach higher. Good morning. We have traveled about 6 hours to basically what feels like the middle of nowhere, China, to climb to what they call the world's most

inconvenient convenience store. This is one of those places that looked so unique and had such a good name that we just had to come see it for ourselves. Hopefully the vapa is holding up better than this broken bridge I'm walking across. Slightly concerning. All right, here we go. This place looks completely crazy. is literally just a tiny building strapped to the side of a mountain. And this harness is uh quite a bit smaller than we wore on our last Verda. Like there's a lot less going on. No shoulder straps. Looks a little older. Absolute chaos.

Walk this way. Can we use translates? Okay. this short line. This one on the U-shaped steel. Now you watch. I'll go. Getting directions in Chinese is very stressful. Okay. Oh, here we go. I'm not having fun yet. Everyone's staring at us. Literally everyone. You ready for this? No. I thought I was all warmed up from the other day, but jeez. Nothing about the start of this experience has instilled any confidence in me. The um the theme park area that we're in looks pretty uh dilapidated. And um the guy has basically thrown us onto the via with no guide and extremely little instructions. He wasn't even going to attempt to Google translate

what we should do. He just pointed which if I'm being completely honest, I kind of love all of this because it makes it a bigger adventure. But had we had not done this before, it would be very terrifying. I'm so terrified. Thankfully, they don't just throw you right off the edge of a cliff. It's pretty tame. You think this is tame? This is pretty tame. These are awful. An adventure. I feel like they're just about to fall out. They do bend quite a bit.

Swear this one's moving. Like it looks like they're super glued. This is wild. We're just walking across this single cable with about a 100t drop down below. So, you could choose between the cable I'm on or the plank bridge. So, I've taken the cable. Cara's back behind me on the plank bridge. How's the bridge? It's a bridge. How in the world did I get talked into doing this again? I actually don't know which one's worse. Every step I feel like this 2x4 could just collapse. The cable actually seems sturdier. It's so hard with one hand. Like, I actually feel like I'm trying to balance on a tight rope. Absolutely wild. The guy behind me is shaking it so bad. He's moving so quick. Maybe one of the things

that guy was trying to tell us was no more than one person on the cable at a time. I don't know. I do love a good adrenaline rush and this section is definitely giving me that. Woo! Don't jump. Completely unnecessary. I kid you not, the guy behind me is smoking a cigarette. I guess just hanging out of his mouth while he's doing this. All right, we're at the bottom. Now we have a vertical climb to get to the convenience store. You think you're uh more or less scared without Charlie here? I enjoyed not being the scarest person and now I am. It actually looks very challenging. Are you turning around? The people in front of us chickened out. So I can pretty much see the rest of the route from here. But basically, we're going to

climb straight up to the convenience store a little bit above it and then we're just going to work our way all the way across the side of the cliff. Ready for this? Do I have a choice? This is why everybody thinks I force you to do these things. I would not be here if it wasn't for you. I don't hate when you talk me into things once I'm done. She likes the feeling when she's done. All right, starting to climb straight up. We're getting close. The clips are fewer and far between.

Yeah, don't fall. I'm not 100% convinced that this harness would hold me if we did. Feel like my harness loosens with every step. I've tightened it three times. I don't think we're convincing anyone to come do this. You're crushing it. These snacks better be good. There better be Snickers and water. M&M's. Peanut M&M's. Heart rate's 120 right now. Hello. You made it. Please don't burn down the cigarettes. For real. Let's double check our harnesses. It feels pretty good. if I'm being completely honest, is feeling like one of those scenarios when we were at

the top of Victoria Falls where you've like committed to something and it's something that you can pay to do that's designed to be safe, but you get there and then it doesn't really feel safe. Feels sketch for sure. And I think at this point we're just stalling because we're about to start the like completely vertical climb. It was the last easy section. Not too far away. Man, if anyone has a fear of heights, this is going to be a hard video to watch. All right, here we go. I'm climbing with three fingers and holding the GoPro with two. All right. Now I got to figure out if I can clip.

All right. Wow. I can't believe how much warmer it is here. We're basically at sea level and we were at 5,000 ft on the other vafarata. So, the weather is very different. I'm in a full body sweat and I was wearing a puffy jacket last time. All right. Almost there. Nice job. Wow. This is beyond vertical. Absolutely crushing it. Look at those biceps. It's good thing I'm not still sore from the last vehicle run. That was scary. Crushing it. This is my safety hook. I need to get a Oh, great. Don't land on my hand. It's Well, I'm catching a little breather. If we're focusing on the positives here, we are in, let's call it a very remote part of China. And it's been pretty funny

because every single person that we walk by stares at us. Like, I think we were the only foreigners here. And I can't imagine many people make it here. So I'm wondering like there's so many kids. Like are we the first foreigners they've ever seen. I mean their faces are just Look at where we are right now. That's the bridge we came across. Just hanging on the side of a cliff. What a life we live. We're almost there. I'm right underneath it. Just got to climb over and up. Also, there's another massive via ladder here.

We're not doing that one today, but if you do make it out here, that is an option. I got bad news. No. What in the world? No. We drove 6 hours into the middle of nowhere, China. Climbed a sketchy via paratada to get to the world's most inconvenience store and it's empty. Nobody working, no snacks, no water. They How does this happen? Don't trust the internet. Well, I'm inside. Well, this is it. It's a box. Some people have left some uh post-it notes. There's some butterflies on the wall. Great view. There's no

water. There's no snacks. There's no one selling anything. That was uh kind of the novelty that we came for. I really am in a bit of disbelief right now. It has been a fun adventure getting here, but what an absolute bummer. What the heck? Well, no sneakers. We could like walk all the way inside, but I'm scared to uncip cuz I don't fully trust this platform that we're standing on. Back up. Probably the next best thing. We'll make our own convenience store. It's a BYO in convenience store. I didn't bring water because I was sure that they were going to have water.

Gosh. M. Was it worth it? No. I think it's been empty for a while. Oh crap. If we're being honest, the convenience store kind of fits the vibe of the rest of the area. It feels like it's been here for a while. At one time, they had tried to like really ramp up tourism and it obviously just hasn't caught on quite as much as they hoped. We still have a long climb to get out here, but you've seen us do a lot of climbing, so I think this is probably the end of the video. The first via that we did is the best thing that I've done in all of China and one of the best things I've ever done in the entire world. I would say totally worth a trip to China just to do that. It's right beside the Avatar Mountains. 10 out of

10. Could not recommend enough. Skip wherever we are right now. Hopefully the Instagram real that we post to this place goes viral. That'll make it worth it. I'm on edge. Why is everybody so jumpy this morning? I've gone to the toilet twice to poo. I've done about four weeks and I still feel like I could go. No way. You're saying this is a brand new harness and it works so well. We've just seen an entire rescue patrol make their way out with body bag. I don't know where they're going, but none of it feels great. All right, I'm going to put

it in my mouth for a little POV. Please don't drop this. Oh. Also, if I make it through a second via Verado without dropping this GoPro that doesn't have a strap, it's going to be a miracle. Please survive. Yes.