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Ask motorists, for example, in Minsk about a dangerous roadway, and they will point to Bangalore Square. People talk horror stories about roads in the Smolensk and Bryansk regions.
But the most dangerous ones, as a rule, are in the mountains. I once had to drive along a mountain serpentine road in Romania, when there were steep slopes on one side and an abyss on the other.
We stopped for a smoke break and I looked down, and there was a dead sheep lying at the bottom of the gorge. Since then I have been afraid of mountain roads and try not to drive on them. Because of this, I did not go to the Valley of Flowers in India; they told me what roads I would have to take to get there.
If you look at the top most dangerous roads in the world, you can say that they are simple and safe.
Death Road in Bolivia, Yungas Province
It is in this province that one of the main “celebrities” of Bolivia is located. The 56-kilometer-long section is called “the road of death” by locals. When you go to look at the terrifying “sight,” think twice about whether it’s worth it, given that the highest point is 3.6 kilometers above sea level, the lowest point is 330 meters, the road width is 4 meters (it’s not easy to pass other cars).
Steep climbs, terrible condition of the surface (a mixture of clay and mud), lack of fencing are the reasons why dozens of cars break down here every year. Do not forget that buses regularly run along the “death road”, which increases the number of victims. Fogs and landslides as a result of heavy rains also worsen the situation.
Nepal, Karnali highway
Extreme lovers go here, only on motorcycles. Only locals decide to take big risks on this 250-kilometer highway; they travel in cars and buses at any time when the section is not closed to entry. They close the road when the surface is in worse condition, for example, after prolonged rainfall.
Karnali claims around 50 lives every year. Reasons: lack of fences, rockfalls, landslides.
Why not close the dangerous highway? A large number of victims for the government is an unconvincing argument for such a move, given that Karnali connects dozens settlements. There is no alternative except helicopters.
Ecuador, area near the Cotopaxi volcano
The official name of the road is Cotopaxi Volcan Road. Looking at the name, it’s easy to guess where the site leads. The route is 40 kilometers long, unlike the previous ones, it does not have large cliffs and does not “suffer” from frequent landslides. But it is included in the list of the most dangerous, if only because it is located next to active volcano. The last time he woke up after a long sleep of 140 years was in August 2015.
Adding fuel to the fire, flooding is a common occurrence in this region due to the steep elevations and terrain features.
Even minimal precipitation becomes a large-scale problem, a disaster that claims human lives.
Chilean Ruta Nacional 5
It is part of the famous Pan-American Highway. With a length of 3,364 kilometers, it does not at first seem dangerous, but first impressions are deceiving. When reaching the section between Iquique and Arica (city), drivers are faced with a straight 300 km 2-lane highway running along a desert landscape.
The appearance of absence of danger plays a cruel joke on motorists. Many people lose concentration, fall asleep and run off the road. Others are faced with another problem - a powerful side wind that can even overturn a truck.
New Zealand, area near Skippers Canyon
25 km scenic road located on a steep cliff. During its 140 years of existence, it was never expanded. Tourists cannot go in rented SUVs, since car insurance is not valid in this area.
Built in the 19th century, the track was designed as a road for moving carts. It is not surprising that driving a car is not an easy task. When giving way to oncoming cars, sometimes drivers back up for 3 kilometers.
China, Guoliang Tunnel
Located in a scenic area of the Taihang Mountain Range. The 1.2-kilometer-long tunnel is the result of the hard work of 13 local residents, many of whom sacrificed their lives for the sake of their “creation.” The 4 meter wide tunnel is partially visible. This helps drivers navigate the road during the day. Traffic is blocked at night.
Since the Guoliang tunnel is the only one that connects the village with other settlements. Residents who do not have transport move along it. On the other side, walking safer, given the number of motorists injured by rockfalls.
Alaska, Dalton Highway
The Dalton Highway was called dangerous even at the design stage. And there is a good reason for this - the 666-kilometer-long road passes through three settlements, the population does not exceed 25 people. If the vehicle breaks down, there will be no quick help here.
The highway was created for commercial transportation. Now it is used by workers of the oil pipeline, to which the road section leads. And these motorists are familiar with government warnings to take essentials with you when venturing onto the Dalton Highway.
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People living in Russia can be frightened by various things, but not by roads. Almost any foreign curiosity from the above list will have an analogue in its native country, or perhaps not just one, but dozens! But still, let's see what the rest of the planet's inhabitants are afraid of and which roads have earned them the reputation of being the most dangerous and terrifying.
1. Mountain Death Road
The old route from the Bolivian capital La Paz to the city of Coroico - northern Las Yungas - has a second, more commonly used name: El Camino de la Muerte, that is, the Road of Death. These 64 km of asphalt, which lead down the edge of the Altiplano mountain from an altitude of 4650 meters to an altitude of 1200 meters, were built by Paraguayan prisoners of war during the 1930s.
Traffic on the Road of Death (unlike other Bolivian highways) is allowed in both directions, but the road surface here is no wider than 3 meters and does not have a safety fence.
The monstrous difference in altitude between the upper and lower points of the Death Road is the reason that travelers descending it go from high-mountain coolness to tropical heat. Because of this, rain, fog, landslides and landslides are so frequent on a short section of the road. In some places, waterfalls run from the mountain directly onto the asphalt.
As a result, any awkwardness or mistake by the driver can lead to a fall into an abyss 600 meters deep.
Everywhere on the road you can see memorial signs and markers indicating the places of the disaster, the fall of cars and the death of people. Every year the Road of Death claimed dozens of lives. On July 24, 1983, a bus fell off it, killing more than a hundred people.
Finally, in the late 90s, the Bolivian authorities built a backup road, a new and safer one. But the Death Road was not closed: it became a tourist attraction. Guides take foreigners along it and organize extreme cycling tours.
2. Death Railway
The 415-kilometer-long railway track (of which 13 km are bridges) between Bangkok (Thailand) and Rangoon (Burma) is also called the Death Road, but not because of the danger of traveling along it, but because its construction caused the death of several thousand people. . Perhaps a more accurate name would be Road of the Dead.
This is probably the only construction project in the world recognized by the courts as a war crime.
In 1942, Imperial Japan invaded Burma from Thailand, retaking it from Britain. To supply Japanese troops in the Burma Campaign, it was necessary to build a road.
When the British ruled Burma, they found it an impossible task: to navigate almost half a thousand kilometers through the hilly jungle with big amount rec.
However, the samurai were not embarrassed by the grandiose plan. After all, they did not intend to build with their own hands. And they weren’t going to pay for the work. They used the labor of 180 thousand Asian convicts and 60 thousand prisoners of war - British, Australians, Dutch, Americans and other participants in the anti-Hitler coalition. The working and maintenance conditions were such that about 90 thousand Asian convicts and 16 thousand prisoners of war died during construction. After the war, Hiroshi Abe, a prison camp guard, was found personally responsible for the deaths of 3,000 prisoners and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The road was built in 1943, but as a result of military operations it fell into disrepair. However, 130 km of the track were reconstructed after the war. There were even plans to completely restore the road.
In the meantime, riding the Hell's Pass route near the city of Kanchanaburi northwest of the Thai capital - where the train skirts sheer cliffs and passes several wooden bridges - is one of the popular tourist attractions.
Whether ghosts are found there is unknown. Nowadays, the only reminders of the sad events on the Death Road are the classic film “The Bridge on the River Kwai” and several museums and memorial cemeteries.
3. Glass Trail and “Heaven’s Gate”
On Mount Tianmen, one of the most high peaks China (1518.6 meters above sea level), in national park near the city of Zhangjiajie there is an amazing tourist complex, part of which are the unique glass path and the longest and tallest in the world cable car. Its spans reach 500 m, and its total length is 7455 m! The name of the road in Chinese sounds very romantic: “Gateway to Heaven.” But in English the romance is already dubious: the name Heaven’s Gate rather betrays the wary attitude of many travelers who had the opportunity to spend several eerie and exciting minutes in a cabin suspended in the middle of the clouds on a steel cable.
Many people feel timid here. But if there are those who are not frightened by the height of the cable car, then the suspended glass path will instill fear in anyone. A suspended path leads along the mountain right along the edge of the abyss among bizarre relict trees. In some places the floor of the suspended walkway is glass. You can see the clouds under your feet. And remember the fragility and frailty of earthly existence.
However, no accidents or disasters have ever happened on the Heavenly Gate Mountain: all the structures are very reliable.
4. Controversial road
The Karakoram Highway, although laid on the ground, plunges into the clouds in many sections. This highest mountain route in the world runs from the city of Abbottabad in Pakistan to chinese city Kashgar is considered one of the most dangerous roads on the planet.
The Karakoram Highway repeats the Great Silk Road of antiquity. From above there are beautiful, uniquely beautiful views, but travelers face many dangers in the form of rain, landslides, storms, winds, snow drifts, rubble and altitude sickness. On average, there are only 30-40 meters of asphalt per 20 kilometers of road. But what is even more unpleasant is that this road runs between the regions of Jammu and Kashmir, that is, territories that have been the cause of bitter disputes between India and Pakistan for more than 60 years. An area of border conflicts, where, in addition to the harsh nature, the rule of force and weapons reigns - that is what the Karakoram Highway is. However, adventurous cyclists and bikers love to travel along it.
5. The Ruthless Road
The name of this route, carved into the rocks of Taihan in the Chinese province of Guolian, is “The Road that Unforgives Mistakes.”
Residents of the local village built it in 1997 to be able to get to " big land"from its sky-high heights.
The highway is a 1200 meter tunnel in a mountain 15 feet high and 12 feet wide. There are 30 windows, perhaps so that claustrophobes can calm their nerves by looking outside and admiring the vast abyss below.
Really very beautiful. Local residents travel the road mainly on bicycles. But cars often flew off it into a cliff. After all, this is a road that does not forgive mistakes.
6. Road without insurance
In the second half of the 19th century, this road was built in New Zealand to give local miners access to the gold-bearing canyon. At the same time, for some reason the road is called the Captains Road - Skippers Road.
Now, in order to travel along it, drivers must obtain permission. But most insurance companies warn that they will not cover the losses of such risk-seekers if something happens.
However, extreme tourists from the nearby city of Queenstown love day trips on this dangerous road. It's very beautiful there. And then, listen: the Road of Captains has passed. Without insurance. Sounds proud!
7. Deserted road
Luxor-Hurghada is a famous tourist route in Egypt, connecting recreation areas along the Red Sea coast with the ancient pharaonic city of Luxor. The highway is 280 km long with a good and smooth road surface; the journey along it takes only 4-5 hours.
And yet many people died on this road. The thing is that people travel here mainly at night, avoiding the scorching heat of the desert during the day. When drivers rush along the highway with their headlights off, they often collide head-on, not seeing each other in the columns of dust.
Why don't they turn on the headlights? The fact is that driving on this road with your headlights on is even more dangerous. Terrorists, robbers, all kinds of robbers flock to this world like moths. The consequences are sad. In 1997, Islamist fanatics shot 62 German tourists here.
8. The longer, the more lethal
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Pan American Highway is the longest highway in the world. It starts in Alaska, in North America, and ends in the southernmost regions of South America.
The section of road passing through Costa Rica is the bloodiest section of this route.
A scenic route leads through rainforests, wild places, almost untouched by civilization. It’s beautiful, but renovation work is carried out here too rarely. So some sections of the Pan-American Highway simply wash away during the rainy season. And after floods, landslides can occur here at any time of the year.
So this road is full of surprises, but some of them are deadly.
9. Ice road
The Canadian towns of Inuvik and Tuktoyak are located in the very north of Canada. They are so far from the “mainland” that no roads exist in those places except the winter road on the ice of the Mackenzie River.
Every winter, road services measure the thickness of the ice and allow or prohibit opening traffic. They clear the road and save the unfortunate people caught in a snowstorm - storms in this region of Canada are treacherous and always strike suddenly.
There is also a constant danger of running into a crack in the ice or getting caught in a snow drift. Canadians and Americans consider the Tuktoyak Ice Road to be extreme. Of course, winter roads are commonplace in Russia; almost every village uses them.
10. Cattle Road
The Canning Stock Route in Australia is, in fact, a former route along which the first white settlers drove their herds.
This is one of the most remote roads in the world from civilization. Walking along it is very difficult, because it crosses 1850 km of absolutely deserted desert. To overcome this road, you will need at least a month of time, a technically impeccable car, as well as spare parts and the ability to repair any breakdowns with your own hands, solid supplies of water, provisions and fuel. Although some things can be purchased from the natives, one or two communities still live in this wilderness.
But, of course, there is no guarantee that they will have exactly what you need. Or that none of them will turn out to be cannibals.
11. Troll Road
Norwegian mountain track Construction began at the end of the 19th century, but was completed only in 1936.
This is the most fabulous road in the world, as it leads travelers along the Troll's Cap mountain, through the towns of the Troll's Hut and the Troll's Church.
There are 11 loops on the winding road, the width of the roadway does not exceed three meters. Cars travel along this route only in spring and summer. The rest of the year is too dangerous.
To overcome this difficult road, visiting tourists often hire drivers from among local residents: they are probably better versed in all these wild trolls.
12. Dodgy road
Once upon a time, this area was the border between Italy and Austria-Hungary. As they say, both yours and ours. Maybe that’s why the road through the Prato Pass in the local mountains turned out to be so... dodgy.
A trip along it can be quite nerve-wracking, especially if you drive into a cloud at the top and get caught in freezing rain just below. It is not for nothing that such a capricious road was called Stelvio Pass - “Queen of Zigzags”.
You can drive along it by car from June to September. In winter it is a luge track. Again: both ours and yours, two in one. But at least something is now certain: the road is recognized as Italian territory.
13. Road to nowhere
American Highway in New Mexico, near Albuquerque, local residents called "the road to nowhere." It leads to mountain range San Mateo ends there too. Tourists enjoyed driving along it to admire the views. However, since 2000, 17 people have disappeared without a trace on this road. And this is only confirmed official data.
There are no turns or branches on the road and, in theory, there is nowhere to escape from it. Nevertheless, the road seems to swallow careless drivers, and sometimes entire families. People seem to disappear into thin air. State police and the tourism board recently acknowledged the existence of the mystery of this land Bermuda Triangle. Government officials, private enthusiasts, and various kinds of psychics tried to uncover the secret of the Road to Nowhere. And yet, to this day no one has succeeded.
In conclusion, I would like to remind you: in Russia we have plenty of everything. And the terrible roads are just like mud. True, we didn’t get glass ones - the climate doesn’t allow it.
The roads described below claim lives every year. We offer you a list of the scariest and deadliest roads you have never seen.
Stelvio Pass is a mix of beauty and danger. Along the way, breathtaking Italian views open up to your eyes. Drivers are greeted with 75 hairpin banked turns. Because of this, the pass is considered the most winding road in Europe. Some turns force you to turn the car 180 degrees
The road is only open from May to September. The risk of landslides, slippery asphalt and poor visibility sometimes forces authorities to close the road even in the warm season. The route is protected by a half-meter concrete fence, which at an altitude of 2700 meters causes dizziness even for experienced drivers.
Dalton Highway, Alaska
The length of Dalton is 666 km. The number hints that you shouldn’t go with fearful people. The road is isolated; along the route there are only 3 small villages, the number of inhabitants of which is 57 people. Drivers spend the rest of the journey surrounded by ice and snow.
The Dalton Highway is rightly called the snowiest and one of the most dangerous routes. Every year it causes hundreds of accidents due to the fact that most of the year the road is covered with a crust of ice, and losing control and getting stuck in the snow is a matter of a few seconds.
The photos of the road look like Photoshop. It's hard to believe that it is possible to drive onto the almost 100-meter top of the bridge. This height is necessary for the passage of large vessels.
The length of the road is 1.7 km, which makes the slope when driving no more than 6%, but the appearance of the bridge is scary.
The road is closed in the fall and winter, but is a popular attraction during the warmer months. Tourists are attracted by the amazing view that opens from a height of 850 meters above sea level.
The climb to the top consists of 11 sharp turns on sharp cliffs, protected by a concrete fence and stones. There, visitors are greeted by parking, souvenir shops, an observation deck and a waterfall.
The road was built to transport mining equipment in a canyon full of gold. The path to the precious metal was paved in the 1900s. During this time, he took more than one life. Captains Road is narrow, with soft and shaky soil. Since its founding, no infrastructure or asphalt has appeared. Some areas do not accommodate two cars going in the same direction.
During rains, the path turns into a swampy mess, from which only special equipment can pull the car out. There are no barriers along the way, so during rainstorms the soft earth crumbles and forms gaps. It is impossible to obtain compensation for damage to cars on this road.
Those traveling along this highway are greeted by rockfalls, landslides, extreme weather, avalanches and lack of oxygen. Sometimes highways are closed for 2-3 months due to unsafety. Even in sunny and dry weather, bloody and fatal accidents occur on the highway.
The highway passes through a picturesque mountain range and covers 14 mountain peaks, average height of which - 4-5 km. The peak point of the route is a pass at an altitude of 6 km above sea level. Drivers unaccustomed to such conditions sometimes develop altitude sickness. Therefore, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway is the most dangerous in the country.
Locals call Guoliang the road that does not tolerate mistakes. Wrong movement easily drives the car into a trap. The tunnel, built in steep rocks, has many holes that lead straight to a deadly cliff, and sharp turns are not protected by anything. Because of this, cars easily fly off the track and crash.
The width of the road is less than 4 meters. It is difficult for small people to fit into the narrow openings between the rocks. tourist buses, and it is simply impossible for two cars to pass each other on a 1 km long section of road. There is no artificial lighting in the tunnel; it is illuminated by “windows” cut into the rocks.
Northern Yungas Road or "Road of Death"
Yungas deservedly bears the title of the most dangerous road in the world. Every year, 300 people die and 30 cars and buses crash on the Death Road. The length of the path is 69 km, and the width is 3.2 m. vehicles It is impossible to pass each other in some places, so drivers agree on travel times ahead of time.
In the narrowest places, cars hang over the abyss, the depth of which is 600 meters. The height of the “Road of Death” reaches 3.6 km. Weather and climate also make travel difficult. Fogs reduce visibility on the road to a few meters, and humidity and rain provoke landslides. The worst thing is that there are no alternatives to the road, and local residents use it every day.
Zoji-La
Along with cars and buses, cattle cross the 11-kilometer pass. They move only in one direction: traffic on Zoji-La is one-way, cars drive in opposite directions in turns. The road is only open from May to October, from 4 am to 4 pm. The height of the mountain path is 3529 meters.
The danger does nothing to reduce the influx of cars. Sometimes traffic jams form on Zoji-La, during which sharp turns Columns of transport line up. There are no fences or asphalt surfaces to be expected. The crossing is complicated by the sudden change in weather: on one side of the pass the sun is shining, and on the other it is raining.
Los Caracoles
The road connects Argentina and Chile, so there is always a large flow of cars on it: cars, trucks and large tourist buses. The path runs along the slope of the harsh Alps and winds through a serpentine of 20 turns. The road surface is of high quality, but slopes and sharp turns are difficult to negotiate.
The crust of ice that appears after frost significantly aggravates the passage of the path. Most year the pass is snow-covered. The authorities monitor the condition of the road, clean and repair it. There are no protective barriers along the entire length of the transport route.
Until yesterday, most high point the one I visited was 3,988 meters high. Yesterday this record of mine was broken. I climbed the Khardung La pass in Ladakh.
Its official height is 5,602 meters (almost the height of Elbrus) and it is recognized by the Guinness Book of Records and National Geographic magazine as the world's highest automobile pass. In fact, its altitude according to my GPS was 5,377 meters. It seems that the Indian authorities inflated the height of the pass in order to get the palm, since there are a couple more passes in Tibet with roads built above 5,377. But that’s not the point.
I ended up in Tibet with an expedition organized by the “Two Sticks” chain of free-flight restaurants. From June 1 to June 15, restaurant visitors could fill out a participation form and go to either Venezuela or Tibet. Unfortunately, due to unrest, the Chinese stopped issuing visas to Tibet, and at the last moment it had to be replaced with Little Tibet or Ladakh - a region located in northern India, and almost identical to Tibet.
We spent the first few days in the city of Lech, located at an altitude of 3,500 meters. Here we acclimatized before further ascent to the remote Lake Tso Moriri, where our expedition would take water samples and bring them back to Russia. I’ll tell you about the first days a little later, but today I want to show photos from the Khardung La pass.
Early in the morning we got into our cars and climbed almost 2 kilometers in 2 hours to the mark of 5,600 (5,377) meters. There, at an altitude of more than 5 kilometers above sea level, everything is different: there is a catastrophic lack of air, it is impossible to take a deep breath, your legs are weak, you are constantly swaying, your head is buzzing, you feel nauseous, your speech is slow, it is very difficult to formulate your thoughts, constant shortness of breath and other delights.
But not everyone is affected by height the same way. For some, it intoxicates and causes euphoria. In this case, they do unpredictable things, for example, tear off their clothes and take pictures with unfamiliar Polish bikers:
On a sunny morning we started climbing the pass. The green valley with Lech in the middle slowly moved away as we gained altitude:
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The day before the weather was bad and the tops of the mountains were covered with snow:
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We made our first stop at 4,200, after climbing 700 meters, which was already relatively comfortable for us in Lech. It has become even more difficult to breathe, but it is not critical yet. What bothered me more was slight dizziness and an unsteady gait. Therefore, I watched with bated breath when my expedition friends climbed onto the sharp stones standing on the cliff:
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At an altitude of 4,500 we were all stopped at a police cordon to have our passports checked. There were 14 kilometers left to the pass:
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Update: As it turned out later, this cyclist is Tonya from http://gingertea.ru/. She has been traveling around northern India by bicycle for 5 months:
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View from 5 thousand meters:
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There are a lot of mountain serpentines with closed turns in Ladakh. Before each of them it is customary to beep:
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The higher you go up the mountain, the narrower the road. Sometimes it was very scary to drive it around with trucks:
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All the roads of Ladakh are plastered with funny signs, where in a poetic form drivers are urged to drive carefully. For example, a sign just before the pass reads: " You are driving along the highest road in the world highway, and not a shortcut to heaven!"
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Do you see the Beeline tower on the mountain? This is the pass, and the line cutting the mountain is our road:
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But there is still a long way to go:
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The green spot below is Lech, where we started our climb:
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The last turn and we are at the pass:
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There are several shops with half-empty counters and a small cafe:
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As elsewhere in Ladakh, all the peaks are hung with ritual flags with prayers. It is believed that when the wind fiddles with the flags, it reads prayers from them and carries them to the valley:
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"Famous blogger Dmitry Ternovsky "In my opinion, this has already become a meme, since the entire press does not mention Dima otherwise. And in a beige case behind his back there is a lens on which Dmitry Anatolyevich signed:
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Visit, if not on the roof of the world, but clearly on its cornice, and not take a photo with our flag?
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There were a lot of cars at the pass and painted trucks had difficulty squeezing past SUVs with tourists:
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The Khardung La Pass also made it into the Guinness Book of Records for having the highest public toilet in the world:
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Another photo of Polish bikers and members of our expedition:
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And, of course, group photos:
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Pakistan is visible in the background:
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The task for the day was to climb to the pass, hang out there for 20 minutes and go down. Considering the previous 4 days of acclimatization, everything should have been painless.
However, the group consisted almost entirely of young and hardy guys who climbed to the neighboring peak and did not want to leave. As a result, we spent about an hour and a half at the pass, and we also got into a traffic jam on the way down.
On this day, we very quickly - in 2 hours - climbed 2 kilometers, from level 3500 to 5600, and we also spent too much time at altitude. The combination of these circumstances became fatal for me. Despite the guide’s assurances that I would feel better as soon as we descended 500 meters, this did not happen. The further we went down, the more mountain sickness covered me and my comrades.
We had headaches, many of us felt sick, our stomachs were twisting, and everyone walked around exhausted. Upon arrival at the hotel, I went to bed, and when I woke up, I realized that I couldn’t see anything with one eye:
Our guide gave me a strong medicine for altitude sickness - diacarb. An hour later the eye went away, but the headache and nausea remained. In the end, we decided to call a doctor, who also measured my blood pressure. It turned out to be 170 to 120:
He prescribed me some strong and fast-acting medicine and put me on oxygen:
He promised that everything would pass in a couple of hours, but said that it was up to me to decide whether to continue the expedition or not, since for the next 4 nights we had to sleep at altitudes of 4500 - 4800 meters, and spending the night at such an altitude is much more difficult than a short climb to 5600 .
After the doctor's visit, I had 3 options:
* Continue climbing with everyone else.
* Rest for a day in Leh, see how you feel and, perhaps, catch up with the others in a day at Lake Tso Moriri.
* Fly down to Delhi at sea level and then on to Moscow.
Over the course of the evening, my decision flowed smoothly from the first point to the last. The fact is that despite the strong medications given by the doctor and his assurances that the pressure should drop in an hour, it still grew.
They brought an oxygen machine into my room, stuck 2 dirty tubes into my nose, which had clearly been in more than one nose before me, and gave me oxygen to breathe. They promised that in 2 hours I would jump out of bed and run to pester the girls, however, after 2 hours my condition did not improve, but continued to worsen.
All this time I was surfing the Internet and texting
Domestic roads are traditionally considered something terrible in our country, often incompatible with a normal car, and sometimes they are even elevated to the status of a national disaster. In fact, in many other countries, road conditions are just as pressing a problem. Let's see which roads are the most dangerous in the world.
The official title of the most dangerous was given to the Bolivian “Road of Death”, which runs at an altitude of 600-700 meters and is not equipped with any barriers. Once you enter a narrow one-way lane, you won’t be able to turn off it for the next 70 kilometers. Every year, up to 300 people die on the Death Road.
Gwoliang Tunnel carved into Chinese mountains Taihang in the seventies of the twentieth century. They say about this place: “the road that does not forgive mistakes.” Despite the high danger of the four-meter roadway, incredibly picturesque views open from the cut-out windows of the tunnel.
The Philippine Halsema Expressway is 241 kilometers long. But motorists travel this seemingly short distance on average for 10-15 hours. Mountain route, for the most part, consists of mud, and landslides and collapses are common here.
Our federal road M65 Lena is also included in the list of the most dangerous roads in the world. In winter, the temperature here drops below 45 degrees, and summer rains sometimes make it impassable.
The Karakoram Highway is called by some the ninth wonder of the world. The 1,300-kilometer road, built along the route of the Great Silk Road, reaches an altitude of 4,693 meters, connects China and Pakistan and is currently recognized as the highest mountain road in the world.
The Van Zyl mountain pass in Namibia can hardly be called a road. There’s definitely nothing to do there without a well-prepared SUV. But for those who manage to overcome the most difficult trails, a breathtaking view of the glacial valley awaits.
The Leh-Manali high mountain highway stretches 478 kilometers. And if you dare to look there, rest assured that it will be the most intense 478 kilometers of your life. Four-kilometer rocky routes without obstacles, coupled with snow storms, will frighten even experienced drivers.
