I Found An Impossible Ancient Ruin While Flying My Drone

Hey my friends. A couple things I'd like to add. - It's worth it to note that these desperate strongholds are usually only from a time period of about 200 years of the Southwest's history. For many thousands of years, there may have been "relative" peace and security throughout the Southwest, as much as anywhere else. But then, due to a number of possibilities, things took a dramatic turn to the desperate, and people started taking to the cliffs and ledges. - I realized a brain fart typo after posting the video. It’s the Yosemite Decimal System, not decibel. Clearly I was still flustered when I edited. 😂 Thank you for watching!

I am from the Navajo Nation. Thank you for respecting the artifacts of the past and putting them back where they belong. Those are sacred to native Americans. Thank you!

I worked as an Engineer for over 25 years in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Peru etc.. I am in awe of all the structures I have seen in my travels. I have deep admiration and respect for the engineering accomplishments of the ancient builders who came before me.

My mother, born in 1923, lived on a mountain top above a similar place , growing up in Indian Territory, Oklahoma. As a kid, she and her 7 siblings would play in the ruins, saying it was easy to get to from the top. In 1964, She took her children to see where she had had so much fun growing up. Alas, It was no longer access-able to us. The rocks of the cliff face had crumbled away with time. THANK YOU for the chance to get a glimpse of a similar experience like what she had a chance to enjoy.

“Always leave stuff where you found it” I love that. Good ethos.

That was definitely NOT BAILING! That was sanity returning…beautiful work sir!

I grew up in the Pueblo of Zuni. I used to do exactly what you are doing when I was a boy and it was some of the best times I've had in my life. Aside from all the ruins I also found lots of fossils.... fossilized plants and trilobites and amethyst crystals in those red boulder fields. I do hope you at least have a hand gun at least. I always had a .22 rifle even at 10 years old and it came in handy a few times when mountain lion would stalk me. I never shot directly at them. Just near enough for them to sense the danger and flee. I love mountain lions. My Zuni Grandma used to tell me that looking to the night stars was forbidden which I found odd as our Anasazi ancestors held vast knowledge of astronomy. I feel that perhaps something came from space which is why the people moved to the cliffs and why my Grandma passed the directive to fear the stars. I never listened though. On my 3 day hikes in the desert I always soaked in the night sky

I also want to show massive respect to this man. From the beginning, we heard about the sun going down, and much respect for the amazement that lead to the statement, "I'm hiking back in the dark" that comes from respect and awe of these ruins.

I am from the American Nation. Thank you for these videos from the Western desert. Great land. Great history!

People say we're lucky in Europe with all our history but I'm mad jealous of you guys and the fact that you still have lots of land to explore and history to uncover!

Perfectly happy to see a drone shot of inaccessible places. Thanks for not pushing your luck on that tricky ledge.

That landscape is stunning! You are one lucky man to have acess to these lands. Treat the nature and these unique artifacts with all the care and respect they deserve. And please be careful so you don't fall and get injured while you are out there.

I really appreciate how he is respectful of the history by not removing artifacts and not giving exact locations to where his exploration is. I have had brief hikes in Arizona around the Phoenix area mountains and into the Wyoming mountains. Most times just day hikes, of not more than a few miles in and out of the mountains. Where people before me have made improvements to make it more accessible for others to hike. I appreciate the danger involved in these multi day explorations with a solo person. I am fascinated with the history of this worlds past civilizations. It was not a leisurely life these people lived. Every day was a struggle for survival.

I am from the alps so I grew up climbing, I think a very likely explaination would be rope ladders, or even more likely: rope bridges. So they bridged the gaps between the pillars and came in the same way you did. That still means someone had to climb that stuff first, but they very likely did not want to do that multiple times a day.

Given how soft and crumbly that “hollow” ledge was, there’s no reason to believe a significant rock fall would have left large boulders on the ground. Sandstone weak enough to crumble beneath your fingers surely would have pulverized to tiny bits with a 55 foot drop onto the canyon floor.

Man.....I wish that I wasn't afraid of heights. I'm 53yrs old and me and my buddies were the first of many urban explorers. I grew up in Kansas City, Mo. In the 70's. The closest we had to a camera was a Polaroid and we couldn't even afford those. We went through abandoned factories in the railyards, to beautiful theaters. The best we did was Union Station! It was in bad shape. I remember that even though it was weather ridden, the beauty in the massive stone architecture was still there. Nice to see it all fixed up and a focal point now for Chief's Superbowl Parades. Thank you for your video. I still feel privileged to have explored the places I was able to. Oh! We found out when traversing a beam 5 stories in the air getting to a control booth in a theater that I was afraid of heights! I froze and it took some time for my friends to get me down. Mom, was never told!

The builders must have been absolutely desperate to put themselves out of reach of someone. Invaders? Cannibals? Somehow they managed to survive and accomplish things unimaginable to us. You rock, ancients!

I read a journal from a Spanish priest on one of the early treks into California and he mentioned a tribe that lived up in rocks like these. They got up to their homes by leaning tall poles against the rock and climbing up.

My parents were explorers and rockhounds. My dad got a months vacation, or more, every year. We spent our time in the desert. We found places that weren't on maps. When I was very young we use to visit family in Oklahoma and Missouri. On our way back home, northern California, they would take different routes. One year we followed the Pony Express route. Needless to say I love exploring and the desert. In Mesa Verde, the Cliff Palace, could be protected by one warrior. Everyone had to crawl through a tunnel to get to the site. Don't forget to also look for hand and foot holds coming down to the dwellings from above. I honestly wish that I was with you finding these places. I love the desert, waking up in the morning and taking a deep breath of air... That's the life. Thank you for sharing all of this with us.

You have my deepest respect for your balls of steel climbing that cliff face and respect for the people who lived such hard way of life.