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- compreal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+65holy crap!!!! that hanging monastery is out of control!!!
- JeffH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+57Those aren't roads...they're collections of dirt that people are stupid enough to drive on.
- matt45, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45I guess in Russia if your stuck in the mud there is nothing else to do but take off your pants.
http://static.flickr.com/121/295090600_7d78481e51.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39After seeing those tiny cars driving in deep mud, please remind again why you need a SUV to drive on paved roads?
- aakrzemi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Those are just there in case you didn't already ***** your pants on the trail.
- Cannon13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33You realize you're implying that in North America we eat roads.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33In soviet russia, road eat you!
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26The monastery? I'm wondering more about Russia. Why do they have 2/3 of the world's scariest roads? Don't they know about pavement? Or two lane roads?
- WindyT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Love the outhouse on the cliff edge. Truly inspirational!
- Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28Look at a map. Look at Russia. See how big it is? Its big.
Now look in an almanac, or on Google. See how small the population of Russia is?
Now go to Russia. See all those poor people?
Lets add it together:
Gigantic Country
+ Small Popluation
+ No Money
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= Crappy roads. - Tordenflesk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Good, i was starting to worry that the "In Soviet Russia"-joke would never come.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19The road of death looks scary.
- coolian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19#$%!!! And to think I was whining about the friggin jams I have to deal with everyday.
- TekeeTakShak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17The hell with all of those - check out that bathroom (last pic)!Oh god, I can see it now...
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16i ,for one, welcome our new american road-eating overlords....
- thtroyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Huh?
- IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14#5 is truly "sick".
- cgoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Not a good idea, you'd just end up flagging a Jeep owner for a pull...
;-) - LeFrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12They did not put Afghanistan? You need to see the mountain passes here. I took photos/videos. Really crazy stuff. I'll have to upload them when I get back.
- PabloMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10This is a unique, interesting and non-controversial Digg submission. Thanks, IvanB!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10That is just insane. Youve gotta love that first pic of Bolivia's "Road of Death".
And after seeing the Hanging Temple Hiking Trail, i have to go there one day.
Great post, thanks - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Seriously. If point B was at the end of one of these roads, then point B would no longer exist to me. No way in hell I'm driving down some of those roads.
- ez12a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The first one is just a long stretch of deep mud. I dont know why people would even try to drive in it, or even call it a road.
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10look at the trees in the background. a number of them are leaning left or right aka drunken trees.
this is siberia. the permafrost is melting.
i wonder if the road used to be fully usable when it was permafrost but due to the climate warming it up the permafrost melted and now theyre mired in mud. - CalipsoII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Agreed! Great digg, a very nice change from the regular front-page stuff. Dugg++
- ThreeDee912, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9What do you expect? Death=Scary (for most people, anyway)
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If only it were an open toilet like the roof pooper in Scrubs.
- primehifi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7And I thought the car-sized pot-holes that litter my city were bad!!
- davidsmero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Did they think they wouldn't get stuck in the mud with the mystery machine van.
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Why is "North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for motorists." listed as number 2?
- Luis911, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5looking at the journey to The Hanging Temple was horible...im afraid of steep heights.
- whisk3rs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5SkeletaLlama: "The monastery? I'm wondering more about Russia. Why do they have 2/3 of the world's scariest roads? Don't they know about pavement? Or two lane roads?"
There's a REALLY old saying in Russia, "In Russia there are two problems, fools and roads"
Many roads in Russia are unpaved. Being the largest country in the world (by area, of course), with roads that stretch for miles among uninhabited areas, with extreme lack of funding, there's no way they'll have the roads paved. Besides, the Yakutsk region gets cold, extremely cold - from Wikipedia, "Yakutsk is one of the coldest cities on earth, with January temperatures regularly remaining below −40 °C (−40 °F). The coldest temperatures ever recorded outside Antarctica occur in the basin of the Yana River to the northeast. Despite this however, July temperatures can often exceed 30 °C (86 °F), making the region among the greatest in the world for seasonal temperature differentials" And you know what that kind of cold, and what that kind of temp fluctuation does to the pavement, especially Russian pavement?
That road was in the news - people pretty much robbed each other, they were ready to kill for food and weapons.
For contrast, here's Moscow traffic of Nov. 2 this year:
http://kp.ru/upimg/logo/73771.jpg
http://kp.ru/upimg/photo/64792.jpg
From http://kp.ru/daily/23801/59403/
The best you could do was 300 meters in 3 hours! - danewb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The second and fifth one are so messed up! There was one picture where half the car was practically hanging off the edge! That's screwed up. And at the tourist place, can you imagine walking across those wooden planks and your only other support to stop you from falling to your death is some chains nailed into the wall? I wouldn't go near any of those.
- Nevrast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5To continue on with the cliche jokes:
I'm in ur SUV, eatin' ur roads. - MurderMystery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I dont think that is a road you say to yourself, "I think I can edge right past this truck."
Well you thought wrong, and now your dead. - datcrazydj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Okay what the *****. That first one isn't even a road!
I wouldn't mind going to Number 5 though. - NiGHTSChao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4scary as ***** T_T
No way in hell I would ever get near those roads - codemonkey2841, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Bangladesh... *****... THAT!!!!
- diggdong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In Tibet side of mountain called road.
- alexkim804, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4what kind of hazard sign would you use for those kinds of conditions? i'm guessing it would show a pile of cars and dead people.
- daofma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4We do. Or, SUVs do, at least =)
- ZombyWoof78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4According to article that is the only road.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R133_XnXQrE
good ending hahaha - ulyssesyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4holy, *****, *****.
my balls shrunk just looking at the pictures. - catmistake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The Guoliang Tunnel reminds me of the spot in southern Utah on I-15 heading into Nevada... windy, crazy curvy tunnels cut into the living rock and steep drops you can't see the bottom of while driving... but the peripheral view is stunning.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Seriously that road of death looks so bad that I would just say: "Oh, there isn't a road to get there that we can take" Just have to fly, hike or not go at all. No way am I considering that as a viable road.
- IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No problem mate.
- gnomeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3ummm...
Try Grant Avenue or Red Lion Road, where they intersect with the Roosevelt Boulevard in philadelphia; They are the top two intersections of death anywhere. - SpiderOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Definitely worth a digg, amazing photos
- gravis86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Remember the story about the really cool road and no one knew where it really was?
http://digg.com/motorsport/The_COOLEST_road_you_ll_ever_see
Well, now we know where it is!!
Good find, Ivan! -
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