Danny MacAskill Finds His Playground in the Ruins of a Salt Lake City

Danny MacAskill is excited like a kid to find his new playground in a ruined village and gives the village its due credit for being such beautifully ruined.

The first time you were ever on a cruise, you would have been overwhelmed by the idea of a city floating on water. One reaches the top most deck of the ship and realizes that if he or she jumps, they will not collide with a concrete floor but a water bed (that shall kill them nevertheless). But if one fine day the city you live in gets eaten away by an off the corner salt lake that people go to watch people fishing or actually fishing (If it has fishes that is)? Then the reactions shall be far from normal I guess.

You must be thinking that aforementioned has happened quite a lot of times, there are many cities those have been eaten away by the big sea out there and thank god we didn’t live there. But a small town being eaten up by a salt lake and then being spit out by the same lake 25 years later is as creepy a real story could get and to top it all with a scary red cherry, it is inhibited by a single 80 year old male, riding a tattered old bicycle along with a dog who has no idea how he got there and how to go elsewhere.

Calm down! It is not a script of the next horror movie you could buy popcorn for while watching it in the next door assembly hall you call a theatre, nor is it a plot for the next harry potter sequel/prequel where the dog shall become Sirius Black and shout “Petrificus totalus” all of a sudden before realizing that he has no one to petrify. It is an actual town which used to be a tourist attraction till 1985 called Villa Epecuén along the shore of Lake Epecuén about 600 kilometres from Buenos Aires, Argentina and clearly the town is named after it too (Surprise Surprise!)

This place was established around 1920s as a tourist village and ultimately it thrived as an attraction and brought inhibitors as well, to wash their hands in the flourishing tourism business in the town. Around 1970s it peaked with a population of around 5000 and a well-defined rail road structure but was also struck with a natural ailment of getting more than (much more than) usual amounts of rains around the surrounding hills and it continued till 1985. In 1985, an earthen dam was broken by the salt water of the lake for being flooded by the aggressive rains. This outbreak resulted in submergence of the village town and the place slowly got forgotten.

In 2009, the water started receding and the skeleton of a town was spat out by the lake. While the ruins were like any other ruins but the whole aura of destruction and salt corrosion gave it such a beautiful view that multiple photographers have ventured into the city just to get their next masterpiece. Only one person who once used to live in the town returned, A man named Pablo Novak, and started living there (with a clueless Sirius black (dog) of-course).

Famous sports cyclist or trial cyclist Danny MacAskill saw the town and as a campaign done by redbull decided these ruins to be his next playground. Going from building to building (or a ruin to another), he gave some of his best acts that at once you shall get a feeling that the walls around might start applauding. The building which you might think twice (thrice in my case) of climbing were being jumped by him while being on his bicycle.

In the video above, Mr. Novak expresses his disappointment while talking about the town having no use to anyone anyhow. Danny found the most appropriate answer to the apprehension and reveals the actual beauty of the town through that crunching noise of the bicycle and the courage that his adventurer heart was born with.

As one says “The broken pieces of your heart shall also be loved by someone someday, so accept whatever you have or not”

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"I do it because i can, I can because I want to, I want to because you said I couldn't." At WeAreHolidays i Do Digital Marketing. When not making strategies for next digital media campaign, i tweet, read/write blogs and explore the world of start-ups.