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Since he was a child, Jorge Rabal was always looking for "the quick way to go down to the valley."

He grew up in Buesa, the small town in Huesca of thirty-odd neighbors next to Broto, in the

Sobrarbe region

, where he still has his home.

Six weeks ago, the businessman fulfilled his childhood dream by inaugurating the Ordesa Pirineos zip line.

He had been eleven years after that until the project finally took shape.

"The initial idea was for it to be the longest zip line in the world," says Rabal, although over time others came forward.

So he had to look for another record to beat ... and he thinks he has achieved it: "We are possibly facing

the fastest in the world

."

About 2,000 people have already been able to test it.

The key is not in its 2,036 meters in length, which is not a small thing, but in that the zip line saves

a difference of 400 meters.

"It's like putting the Eiffel Tower and the Torre del Pilar de Zaragoza one on top of the other. And we would still be above it," Rabal explains graphically on the other end of the phone. This unevenness and the

avant-garde braking system

allow you to reach high speeds safely. It will always depend on the weight of the person and the speed and direction of the wind, but under normal circumstances, it is reached

between 130 and 160 kilometers per hour

.

Soon they will be able to verify it. Rabal would like the Guinness World Records people to come and verify it. In June, the French company responsible for the installation will come to measure it. The

enemy

to beat is a zip line in Rocca Massima, southeast of Rome, which today holds the world record with 172 kilometers per hour. "But it has less unevenness, so we understand that ours can be faster," says Rabal.

However, all users who

fly

on the Sobrarbe zip line carry a triangular sail on their back to stop in a controlled way.

Another story will be that of the brave man who tries to break the record in June.

"The specialist who is going to break the record will go down without any kind of brake."

Of course, it goes

with a "parachute

so that it can confront the braking with security".

There is another reason why the Huesca zip line could achieve that record and that is that the cable has no roughness so the trip is even faster.

And, as a consequence, also much quieter.

"It is designed to enjoy. You can open your arms, close them, look to the right, to the left ...

In Spain there is nothing similar

."

Located in

Fiscal,

this attraction on the Pyrenean mountains is equidistant from the entrance to the Ordesa PN by Torla, Aínsa and Jaca. At the reception the visitor is equipped with a harness, glasses and helmet. But the strong experience already begins with the ascent to the zip line inside the forest. A

4x4

is responsible for those two kilometers

that must move along a forest track where the ramps reach a 38 percent slope.

"The views are spectacular. It is gaining levels with respect to the Ara River,

the last virgin river in the Pyrenees

, whose free flow falls marking the meanders as the avenues are coming".

And once at the top, when you have to accept that it is going to launch horizontally at 160 kilometers per hour, you have to catch air seeing places such as the Ordesa ridges from Mondarruego to Monte Perdido, the Bujaruelo area and towns like Sarvisé, Torla, Buesa or Jánovas.

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Zip line Ordesa Pyrenees.

Price: 35 euros.

Web: www.tirolinapirineos.com

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