As of 2018, there are 102 million miles worth of roads in the world that have been cataloged. And while the majority of those roads may be freshly paved and smoothed over, there are plenty that veers from the beaten path and requires a sturdy vehicle and driver to navigate. But then there are the roads that are downright dangerous. Whether it's because of steep cliffs, tight turns, or the risk of avalanches and earthquakes, these are the roads that can be so difficult to traverse that they can claim the lives of those unfortunate enough to fall victim to them. So join us for today’s video, where we look at the 15 most extreme roads in the world!
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Nicely covered. Have travelled some of the dangerous roads of Ladakh and Himachal. Watching some of these is chilling.
Köszönöm a videó készítőjének, hogy láthattam ezt a csodálatos tájat .
I lived in Tahoe for years, navigating passes with black ice and blowing snow...I'm surely an amateur when it comes to these. I'll "enjoy" vicariously on KZhead, thank you very much!
I like your picture, just how long's that hair since I think longer hair is quite attractive, please describe it?
I love this guy's channel, I think it is fasinating to learn about amazing places around the world.
Excellent documentation. Thank you for putting it together.
---- just gotta love these factual, not dramatized videos ---love the way they show footage shot from and showing tour buses, heavy trucks, and minivans while proclaiming " only cars capable of making it are those with four-wheel drive "
Yes, that video is totally exaggerating the roads, I have been on 3 and it is far less dramatic than described.
@@IndiafanFromGermanyWhich tree?
@@TeaCup1940 Do you mean "which THREE"?
Amazing Video. Total Excellent Done.
A list of No-Go Zones! Incredible that there is video footage.😲
I am a New Zealander, Skippers Canyon road is so bad, insurance companies won't cover you if you have an accident on it. However, I don't think they have the number of deaths on it right. 1st off, we'd hear about it, NZ is not so big that 180+ deaths on it wouldn't be common knowledge. Aside from that, what was 2020? Oh that's right, 1st year of covid, wasn't nobody coming to visit, and I can't see enough kiwis going there to get to 180+ deaths by accident on it.
I've been on Skipper's Canyon Road, thanks for the reminder 😊
Thanks for the Informative Video.
News flash, guardrails will NOT keep you from going over the side. In SOME rare circumstances it might slow you down, but they are really there to help you know where the edges are.
Wait really 😮
Áll made a long time ago by our ancestors with blood sweat tears and more tears..Working hard and get almost nothing....Squeezed like a lemon by an extremely wealthy and cruel government, like today so. Stay grateful and ..Do not forget them... LOVE to you all.
Your statement is mostly true, if a bit melodramatic. However, I can guarantee that none of MY ancestors built these roads. I prefer to give credit where it's due, and that is to the people living there at the time who did all the hard, backbreaking work, not to my ancestors, who did other kinds of backbreaking work right here in America.
My thoughts for some of these roads.....OH HELL NO!!
A Class - Upload.. 400 Miles - Dalton Highway.. And Tunnel Dug By Hand and Cheap Tools.. Got Me..
It's 2022, I want my Flying Car!~
Lol so funny 😁
Get one of these bends wrong and you will have a flying car
With off road tires and a parachute
My anxiety is triggered. I can't imagine having to navigate or deal with these roads. hectic 😩
Rainbow Road be like
Why? If you're not going to be driving any of them, why in the world do you waste time and energy uselessly on "anxiety"?
800 miles of breathtakingly beautiful highway looks mighty fine on video. Good enough for me.
Fantastic channel, but look into the roads in the Western Cape, South Africa
The Yungas Road is not really used anymore by cars. It's now mainly used for downhill mountainbiking (which I did this year) and some locals who are living here. A newer road took over the role of the Yungas Road and all traffic is using this road. Moreover, a mudslide covered the road making it impossible for vehicles to cross the entire road. So that's why there's barely any motorized traffic here.
I think it still dangerous for mountain biking
Very smarty to make this road highway is very hard yo make because is very defecult dangerous but very nice viewing good jobs god bless all 🙏
I have driven the Pan American Highway many times when I was stationed in Panama in the 80's...sometimes it's clear sailing...but mostly it's a one way disaster waiting to happen...I never encountered any nefarious people along the way, but imagine LA traffic on one lane...
I worked along the Dalton Hyway for 15 years driving a few hundred thousand miles and it is a easy to drive. There is a road in Irian Jaya Indonesia that a mining company owns that is pretty challenging. In one place you climb a 1,000 feet a miles for six miles. I spent 8 months there and drove if a lot.
AGREE
@@Respectus786 The nice thing about the Dalton Highway is there isn’t a lot of traffic. In the winter you can see most oncoming vehicles for miles before you pass them.
The one that was twice as deep as the grand canyon at 15000 feet looked super gnarly.
I'm Mexico there is a road called "Espinazo del Diablo", the devil's spine. Take a look at that one
I just looked it up and watched an 11 year old video of a POV on a persons helmet while they were riding their motorcycle on it!!!! The turns must have been so much fun! Thanks for the suggestion!🤗
Just rode that one on my motorcycle....enjoyed it so much I did it twice on the same trip!
@@r12rtpilot OH WOW!!! That’s so awesome! Glad you were able to go and take advantage of such a memorable experience! 👍😁
It was good to learn that none of them was in my neck of the woods. I don’t plan to be any where close to any of those roads. The closest I have come to a road similar to any of these was in New Mexico. It was a narrow two lane gravel road without railings to keep one from taking a nose dive down a cliff. But it was maintained. If my memory is correct it was a 30 to 40 mile trip. I was told it was about a 2 hour drive, and it was.
These were enjoyable. Thank you for sharing: kzhead.info/sun/eMioirGtqX2HfXk/bejne.html
I'm going to Hawaii soon and I will be driving the Road to Hana. One of the locals told me people say its either the scariest or most beautiful drive of their life. I'm sure a combination of both. I can't wait!
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영상 제작하시는 분들 고생 하셨습니다 도로를 만들고 길을 트는일은 하늘이 내린 사람들 같습니다 ~ ^^ 👍👏😄🙏
You should mention the Managng Road in Nepal, that stretches about 100 Kms with the highest elevation of approx 4000 meters, terribly cliffy but scenic with water falls that sweeps away the road, and the tall snowy mountains by the side of the road.
No way Jose. The bridge to the Florida keys is good enough for me.
Great 👍 video thanks
Awesome post
*Note: The first image of the video section is actually a different road. The road that is focused on in this video does not go along the coast.* Went on the one in Taiwan a few months ago, and it's absolutely beautiful. I rate that entire road a 100/10. That trip made April 18th 2022 the best day of my life so far. On that road I always see signs that warn about falling rocks, and I often see news about boulders damaging the road. However these incidents usually happen during rain, typhoons and earthquakes, and as long as you avoid these when going there, you're mostly fine. Still, watch out and be careful! (I was expecting to see that one when I clicked on this video, and sure enough, it's there.)
A bit difficult to "avoid" the earthquakes. I was in a 6.5 on the Taroko Gorge road 37 years ago before it was developed. If you look very carefully across the gorge you can see indigenous cave dwellers on the side of the cliffs. It is the ideal place to study the concept of empty space in Chinese painting.
Cool, that's me at 0:03 and 3:53 ! 😍
Russia: We have largest expanse of land on Earth. Also Russia: We should build road over sometimes river.
Also Russia: When someone gets too intelligent it's time to send them to Gulag!!!
Never been this early to one of these videos. Lesgo
Zero times indeed boi, zero times indeed 😉😂😂
Thumb nail is a video game lol
16:50 the narrator says that 185 people lost their lives in 2021 on Skipper's Canyon Road, New Zealand. This is false. No one lost their lives on that road in 2021, in fact, there were not even any accidents on that road! That was HALF the road death toll for the entire country of New Zealand that year, when the stats were being collated.
Kiwi drivers are pretty courteous, especially on back country roads
Atlantic Ocean Rd. does look breathtaking.
I drove the snow covered road from Sarajevo to Tuzla in Bosnia...in a Zastava...What used to be be sold in the U.S. as the Yugo...It was two hours of tedious hillside driving...
Scary! My legs are trembling...
Wondering why the trio of Clarkson, May and Hammond haven't driven the 99 highway???
Very nice view, but also very dangerous/ unfortunately.
I ain’t getting on a bus. I guess I’ll never get to see Kashmir.
i get vertigo from just looking at some of those drops 🤣
My friend told me he was in Yakutia and passed that road. He was asleep on a backseat and when opened his eyes asked: "when will we reach Lena river?" And he was answered that they go ON Lena for last half an hour. "But there's snow fields left and right and no river" he said. Then they told him "we are approximately in the centre of Lena and there're about two miles to a shore on each side" He was shocked and scared. He said they passed about 30 miles by the river
Thanks for the video. BTW NZ's road toll in TOTAL in 2021 was 320 deaths. I can assure you, 125 people did NOT die on Skippers Canyon in 2021. I think 0 people died on Skippers - I can't even remember the last time there was a significant accident on it. I've been down it a few times but I'd never drive it myself, and likely wouldn't go again (too scared of heights and drops).
I agree. Was going to say the same thing. I live in NZ.
@charles the french NAH 💀
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ahahahaha Merry Christmas @charles the french
Yeah, I almost choked on my Milo when I heard this statement..... Im curious where they got this stat from?! Makes you wonder what other BS they say then...
Why do these roads even exist??! I don’t understand.
AMAZING
Grazie per il video molti reali
Canada's most dangerous roadway is also the most scenic. The Sea-To-Sky connecting Vancouver to Whistler. The road is so scenic, that tourists are constantly taking their eyes off the road resulting in head on collisions. That's when a landslide isn't closing it or it being washed out in heavy rainfall. When I was a cop working in that area years ago, it seemed we were attending a serious motor-vehicle accident there on a daily or nightly basis, or both.
Is that the only way from Vancouver to Whistler? I don't recall what road we took but it was gorgeous. Whistler-Blackcomb is jaw-dropping spectacular...difficult to focus on the skiing with all all that amazing scenery...and I lived in Tahoe!
Вам круто повезло жить в там моя мечта туда попасть Но увы я на другой стороне земли
They really need to invest in remote control Go-Pro attachments that you can place on the side of your window - the gyro keeps the image clean and you can rotate to your liking - that way the driver can concentrate on driving and watch the view at night
한번 가보고 싶다.....너무 멋지다.
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Hi I am Kim from Nottingham England, I am a 64 old hippie and hope you are well hugs and love xxxx
It is a very scary and dangerous road. good to see
You wouldn't catch me DEAD on these roads lol!!
@9:42. That has to be the Nullabor Plain in Australia. Most likely the area east of Caiguna, where the road is dead straight for 90km.
at 17.55 the voiceover is completely wrong stating "185 deaths on Skippers canyon road in 2021" - the figure of 185 deaths applies as a total on ALL rural roads in New Zealand, not that road!
Yeah, I think it was like 0 for 2021!!!
good work
And if the roads aren't bad enough, the drivers in most of these countries are terrible. They actually believe good luck charms and religious icons on the dash will protect them.
In other country have a dangerous road But in Malaysia we have a haunted road
Actually the joke is real
extreme roads in the world waow...
The ice road in Siberia was the most unusual of this list.
These places make my pants too heavy to walk
Funny; my pants are very lightweight, but have never walked without me being in them (I "get" what you're not saying 🙄).
My niece had ridden all of the Road of Bones on her bike as part of the Vladivostok to Moscow Rally. She also holds the Guinness World Record for the highest altitude motorbike ride by a woman.
Míde Maher is your niece?
@@zpwner383 Yes
wow
Sounds like a woman I would like to ride!!!
awesome!
I would never go on a road like these
"Oh good morning Weary traveler" -Shayne Topp
Awesome! "It remains as thin, narrow and horrifying..." 🤣 Those views are Amazing. Some of those are definitely Trails and not roads. You can take a motorized vehicle on a trail, but that doesn't make it a road 😂 it just makes you an idiot with a death-wish, or really really desperate. The dirt bikes were totally appropriate for those thin "roads". It really looks like a free-for-all on some of them and, while I hate to hear of people dying in such a preventable circumstance, they could def take more precautions. It is kinda startling and somewhat refreshing to know that, in this day and age, not all places of this world are over-developed. They could def use some barriers and reflectors on their Trails though. Those folks got Way more guts than I do, that's for sure. Great episode !!
I think the safest road on this list to travel on is the Atlantic Ocean road in Norway. It looks like one of those roads for peace and tranquility.
Where was the description of the "devils spine " ? That's the one I was looking for and wanting to see.
17:55 I am a Kiwi, and I need to know where the hell you got that stat for Skippers Canyon? .... because like hell 185 died in 2021 alone! That's like the stat for road deaths in ALL OF NZ for the year!!!? Are you meant to say 185 died over ALL TIME since the creation of Skippers Rd?! Please correct your mistake.
bruh, the thumbnail was a cities skylines screenshot 🤣
in the 1980s on Pikes Peak there was no pavement or guard rails going up the 14,115 foot mountain. Some parts of the road were pretty wide while others were narrow enough to allow for only one vehicle to pass. The number of turns: 156. While the whole road is paved nowadays, it can still put fear into the soul of every driver. This is a road that is absolutely not for the faint of heart. Hogback Ridge, also in Colorado is one that some might consider an even scarier drive, but fun nonetheless. Imagine a road so narrow and high up that when you look out the side windows you don’t see ground near your tires, but sky. Several hundred feet of drop off space existon both sides of your vehicle for the entire mile long drive…….. and it is not a flat straight road either.
Black Bear Pass is another Colorado gem.
Black bear pass is a lot of fun, especially for a lifted wrangler. My 2010 liberty is pretty decent, but not like my old Wrangler was. I might put a small lift on the liberty if I can figure out how to get a little more breath-ability and power out of the engine.
A snap on my motorcycle....and beautiful! ,
People with ev cars 10,000 15,000 feet 😙😂. My car has all the power thin air will do nothing to this beast.
Frig that ,not doing any of those roads,have enough problems driving my area with emus and kangaroos jumping out
#15 - is not dangerous by any stretch, especially when compared to mountainous roads that are barely a lane wide, prone to landslides, avalanches and getting washed out with monsoons. the atlantic highway is an asphalt paved multilane highway with turnouts, viewpoints, and guardrails.
Indeed, you are right.
So far there has been only one fatal accident along the Atlantic Road and it had nothing to do with the road itself. Back in 2013 a tourist stopped by the road to watch the view, slipped and fell into the ocean.
Indeed. Have driven it more times than I can count. In full storm as well. It really is not dangerous nor does it test your fear of heights more than any normal bridge. It is dangerously beautiful though :)
all i have too say is wow
Colorado inrerstate very cool, catvrd into the tocks, coolest thimg i see, homrstly, for real❤
I’ve been on the Hana Highway in Hawai’i and I thought that was scary, but compared to some of these roads it’s nothing!
Mi coglie una gran paura nel vedere il coraggio di queste persone che affrontano i mille pericoli di queste che chiamano "strade". Complimenti a loro ed un augurio di buon viaggio da Luciano il perugino (Italia) 🍀🍀🍀
Those roads are bad for vehicles but if you use your feet they are good
I'm pretty confident I've saw Ms.Frizzle drove through Fairy Meadow road in Magic Drift Bus once
Had a driveway that scared me more than these. That sucked. So glad I lived through that nightmare. Drive safe all:)
Just watching the Kenya Mountain Road, my knees are giving up tommy turning.
A road im Hawaii was the scariest road i ever been on. It was like one mistake you are dead. The road was so narrow i thought every time a car came by i thought we was going to crash. I thank God we survived and made it too
Crazy, I'll be staying away from all of these roads!
what would you do if you went down this road
thumbnail brought me to this channel. It's extreme crazy people using the road...
Good morning to all from SE Louisiana 13 Sep 22.
세상은 넓고 신기한 일들이 많네요 도로가 너무 위험해요..어떻게 저곳을 버스랑 승용차가 다니는지...
Somebody had to build all of these roads...
That's one of the interesting points about them, according to other videos that have been on YT. That "someone," or many, built these roads by hand, working for years in order to make a connection between one remote place and another. Mighty hard work on their parts, whoever they were, and in reality, though the roads themselves aren't great in some instances, it's obvious that many users are grateful they're at least there.
When are you going to change the channel name to 'Top 15's'?
Sounds like the Himalayan countries need a couple good highway engineers.
I remember reading that NZ rental car companies have a standard clause in their contracts saying that their insurance will not cover you if you drive Skippers Canyon Road.
Eerlijk gezegd, wordt ik al eng als ik op een krant sta, dus heb wel alle respect voor diegene, die van deze "wegen" gebruik moeten maken om hun brood te verdienen...ikzelf hou het wel op een leuk bruggetje over een sloot...en dan nog!!
Nobody has ever tell me the reason why people risks their lives constructing those kind of roads 🤔
I think it's because , some countries,some cities ,some villages ( any where in the world ) can not afford to build bridges.SO thay make roads as best as they can with the" land " they do have and make what ever road thay can until they can do better . 😁
You always got to get places.
AMAZING VIDEO
The only reason maybe coz they just cannot live anywhere else. Either that or they are just too adventurous and think they're still monkeys.
Well, some people have been living in some of these areas because of some valuable resources long before cars and modern engineering have existed, gold in Peru for instance and the silk road in India and Pakistan, so they build roads to be able get to work and feed their loved ones, a penny in the UK can't even buy a bread but it can feed a family elsewhere...
No mention of Pearl Pass or Gothic Road/Schoffield Pass?
now I know the dangerous ways in the world
As soon as we perfect teleporters these dangerous roads will no longer be needed.
They aren't NEEDED right now. Every road in this video has an alternative route.
Not going to happen, and those people/regions are far too poor for such technologies, anyhow.
@@jb6712yep true I doubt they can afford that
The narrator is so funny!🤣
Iliked tbe colorado one
I was on the road in Bolivia in 1964. It was harrowing and led to a village with native dancers and wild parrots.
Interesting they mention Taroku Gorge as dangerous, the road down the east coast of Taiwan from the north to the gorge was the part I found scary, once in the gorge was more like a work of art with incredible workmanship in some tunnels, and great beauty.
There's MUCH more dangerous roads in Taiwan. Some of the East-West roads that go over the mountains are hundreds of KM of switchback roads with over 30 degree inclines, ONE-LANE wide, without guardrails, hosting traffic from BOTH directions. It's a 5 minute, nail-biting, inches-apart, edge-of-cliff 'experience' when you meet another car... or freaking BUS... up there... I was almost crying in terror, while the local in the car didn't even flinch.
@@porflimbornapilis2556 Really unforgettable aren’t they? Congratulations you survived to tell the tale!
#1. Rainbow Road
Usa?? Vety good one.