The World's Most Dangerous Highway: The Leh-Manali Highway
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Across the many glacial valleys in the Himalayas, there are many villages that dot the rugged surrounding landscape, some with a rich history that long predates American history as a whole. In order to service many of these remote Himalayan villages in India.
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I was in Leh about 10 years ago and met a guy who worked on motorcycles. There are tons of them in Leh because people like to ride their motorcycles up the Leh Manali Higway, but going back down is too daunting and they prefer to just sell the motorcycle and fly back. After an afternoon of chatting and sharing tea, my new friend asks if I want to help him deliver a Royal Enfield Thunderbird 500cc to Manali the next morning, I say sure, and the next morning I'm on the back of his motorcycle for 2 days of the most insane traveling I've ever done. That road is incredible in its epic beauty, but at every turn there is slick mud and a sharp drop off, or a waterfall overtaking the road, or a bridge with holes in it that force you to ride on the narrow steel beams supporting it. I saw 3 trucks slipping and sliding off the edges of the road up to Rohtang Pass.
One interesting thing about the mud at Rohtang Pass, there's either pyrite or something else glittery in it because when that mud dries on your clothes, it becomes extremely sparkly.
Very well could have been a micaceous sand considering all of the schist in the Himalayas. Mica has been used for mirrors.
I was doing a lake shore survey in western NC and the beaches were nearly solid mica and it was glittery as all hell.
Back in the 1990's I had a deep-seated obsession with the Himalayas. One year I set out to travel all the highest motorable roads in Nepal, India, Pakistan and Tibet. On this list was the Manali to Leh Highway. The journey will take two days and crosses five passes with the highest being well over 17,000 feet. I will never forget the pure grander of those mountains. I also remember looking out the window with the tyres of the bus being just feet from the precipice. I quickly became fatalistic.
If this is on your bucket list, then consider travelling by bus from Manali to Leh and then to Srinagar and onto Jammu. I would consider this to be the greatest bus journey in the world. Also give yourself plenty of time to stop off and enjoy the sites of Leh and Srinagar. Depending on the winter snow the road will open sometime in May.
R.I.P to all those people who have lost their lives on these roads.
Thank you, MM, for your respectful telling of this very tragic story. Blessings to you and yours. And may the victims rest in peace. 🙏🏻
the _"check it out"_ about the highway of death caught me so off guard because of your consistent narration lmao hahahah
I also died when I heard it 😂😂
Literally only time I've heard him change his voice out of all his videos lol
@@shmarice you have to check out the video with the thumbnail of a dude with one of those horse masks, his impersonations are hilarious. He also did it in the austtalias crocodile attacks video.
Wait there was a highway OD that results in death? 🤔
They were testing the water.
We’ll see if it sticks 😂
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah a new Morbid Midnight video the more I watch these the happier and content I am to stay inside my safe comfortable house traveling days being over , and watch more perfect Morbid Midnight videos such a treasure! 👑👑👑
Thanks for naming the victims. Thanks for the story.
What's happening in Gaza is their own fault.
Love ur vids bro I just wish they wer a bit longer but good stuff my friend
Thank you for always being respectful to the victims and not sensationalizing these true stories for more views.
Thank u for being overtly too sensitive to be called a man
Thank you very much for making these videos. Your videos are highly educational to people who do not understand the complexities of nature.
Thanks once again, MM.........but I still think the Donner Party deserves a very deep dive from this channel. An oldie but still goodie.
The donner party is overdone
@@greengoblin876his narration and presentation is unique . Unless you have other videos with his exact style it hadn’t been done
He needs to talk like he really talks and quit whispering or prove you're not a robot! A photo would help! I think he has two You Tube Channels and doesn't want to let on 🤫
11 people in a SUV . Kids must have been sitting on their parents laps or something. Tragic.
Not tragic. Literally the opposite of tragic.
@@jonhofelich9107I'm not sure what you mean by that. LITERALLY the opposite? That would be blessed or delightful or fortunate or joyful. Surely you don't think that!
@@jonhofelich9107bro, you are mixing tragedy with comedy.
@@KarenAlexandrite-aka-PinkRose The overloading of the vehicle contributed to it going out of control and over the cliff. A tragedy is unexpected and unavoidable.
@umadbra
I think the "Dead" giveaway was NO traffic at all. Doing this in a torrential down fall was just insane. Just INSANE!
I'll gladly pay for you to do a segment on Sacred Falls, Hawaii.
I was on a road in Nepal and they drove in the riverbed when it wasn't flowing because the road was so bad.
I was going to comment this felt like a re-upload until “Yeti” was mentioned. 😅
Fantastic work
If God had meant Man to roll, he would have given us wheels instead of feet. It's interesting that the Inca population built paths extending far up into the Andes for thousands of miles of still present stone pathways that they used for commerce. Himalayan mountain goats are left wondering, "Who built these 12-lane freeways here?"
It's odd how there's almost always one, or a few, drivers who think that they still can drive, even when the conditions is so bad all other drivers stay home. So tragic that everyone in the SUV died.
Look, I'm not trying to be insensitive, but the fact no one else was on the road and that the area was well known to be dangerous even in daylight and clear weather precludes "bad luck." This was simply a stupid idea.
Manythnx Morbid Midnight ✌️
Put him on 1.5x speed and thank me later...
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I can’t imagine what had these people so intent upon making this dangerous trip during a downpour? That vehicle was severely overloaded, the weather was terrible, the road was being washed out, etc. What were they thinking? Too poor to stay in the town for a night? If so, that’s truly sad.
The road to fairy meadows (next to Nanga Parbat) in Pakistan may be the most dangerous, I've been on it and it's much narrower and tricky and prone to rock fall than this
Ok show off
@@whiteyfisk9769vært på mc'ern i år da?
There are far too many roads dubbed the most dangerous. It is a topic that can't really be agreed upon, the yungas road in South America saw almost 90 people perish in a single day in a tragic bus accident and it just happens all the time. If your vehicle falls, your chances of surviving are just ZERO because you are falling off completely vertical cliffs. The cliffs at the side of the are so vertical that way back in the day, prisoners and criminals were thrown off them. It's one SCARY road because of how pretty much vertical it all is. There are so many roads like that.
Now, roads dangerous because of humans are even more debatable, too many candidates everywhere, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Central America... I for example live right in front of what we call the road of death here because criminal activities are not just so high, they are also highly deadly, they make Chicago/Detroit "tough" hoods look like Switzerland tame and safe.
Came here to suggest he cover the yungas road, just the photos of how narrow it can get stress me out
@@bubbletractor I saw the video notification on the phone and immediately thought it was a video about the yungas road. Seriously, some places are so narrow that it is difficult and heart-stopping to go through even in a normal-sized car, I can't imagine the pressure that bus drivers feel when driving on that thing with a largue vehicle full of people under his responsibility. That road is so dangerous it just should not exist at all, I don't think any of these Himalayan roads have seen as many fatalities as the yungas road, seriously.
YOU GOTTA WEAR YOUR SEATBELT!!!
Airbags help as well. But can only do so much for a 300 meter fall
What SUV was it? You can fit 11 passengers in it? I guess some people doubled as car seats. RIP
I've got it! I know who you are! You are the real voice behind Miss Othmar in Peanuts😊. That's been bugging me for ages
Why do you always sound like you are whispering??
Maybe driving this road at night is better. Then you won’t see the drop offs, waterfalls, rockslides, or the avalanches that will take you down into the black void of death. Unless your headlights shine into the oncoming landscape that is about to meet you head on in an instant
They could've got out and walked maybe?...
Dude what's your name?
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Morbid
Timothy how about you
4:10-4:11….what?😮
😂 How does white paint 🎨 fade??
I will ride this highway in 2025
I love when a Darwin can be awarded to an entire family or lineage.
Lol...*checkitout*
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Too much weight