Top 10: Most Dangerous Roads
So you think the roads in your town are bad, well forget about pot holes, rotaries, and nasty intersections; try driving on the edge of a mountain or through winding hillsides roads barely wide enough for two cars to pass. It is likely you might pray harder than ever if you traverse these traitorous trails.
10. Mt. Huashan
Roads don’t have to be just for cars. This Hiking trail in China is listed among the most dangerous. The wooden trail, with no safeguards in site other than a few chains to hang onto for dear life, brings the daring hikers to the top of one of Mt. Huashan, one of five sacred mountains in China. Once there hikers can sit quietly, meditate and pray, probably for a safe trip back down the mountain.
9. Troll Ladder
Winding roads are big when it comes to mountains probably because a straight up ascent would be a little trickier. The Trollstigen or Troll Ladder in Norway has a total of eleven hair pin turns. At the top brave tourists have a view of the Stigfossen Falls.
8. Tibetan Road
High elevation Highways tend to be dangerous due to all the sudden turns and long drops back to earth but the Sichuan-Tibet Highway has a little more to offer. You might want to keep your eyes on the road and have a passenger to keep their eyes peeled for landslides and rock avalanches. Seems this road might not only claim your life, but bury you as well.
7.Taihang Mountain Road
Several Local villagers lost their lives in the construction of this tunnel road through the Taihang Mountains. The 1,200 meter long tunnel through the mountain might be fun in the Bat Mobile!
6. James Dalton Highway
You might choose to take the dog sled if you are heading up the James Dalton Highway in Alaska. The 414 miles gravel road takes you through the frozen tundra straight to the farthest reaches of Alaska. It’s recommended if you hit this road you take along extra fuel, food and perhaps a pair of mukluks. MUSH!
5. Nepal, Tibet
If you think climbing Mt. Everest is dangerous just try getting there on this Nepal, Tibet road. If you make it on this hardly maintained road, Everest should be a piece of cake.
4. Halsema Highway
The Halsema Highway starts off just fine, but if you dare to continue, look out! On second thought just watch the road, the views may be wonderful from this road on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines but besides some significant drops of up to 1000 feet, mud and rock slides as well as a noticeable lack of guard rails makes this a 150 mile stretch of doom.
3. Russian Federal Highway
This Russian Federal Highway is tricky in the winter, but It is the summer months that make this road a problem. The Siberian Road to Yakutsk becomes a mud path. It’s not unusual for travelers to get stuck in near thousand traffic jams. Imagine the mud fights that must take place.
2. Machu Picchu
Walking in the Inca Path to Machu Picchu might feel safer than climbing the twisting mountain road to the ancient site. Bus drivers who take you up the mountain rarely slow down on the narrow stretch of road as the pass, within inches of tourist buses coming back down.
1. North Yungas Road
It’s called “the road of death” for a good reason. Fatal accidents occur on North Yungas Road in Bolivia every couple of weeks. Whipping through the Bolivian Andes on this stretch of read might also means an experience in falling; into a car graveyard some 3,600 meters below.
