I’m half Bolivian and been to coroico (pronounced koroiko) my mother used to regularly use this road to see the family because my family had businesses in the yungas. The new motorway is great and very safe. Only tourist bikers really use the old road. It’s a beautiful region and worth a trip but avoid the death road, take the modern motorway.
FACT CHECK: (Sorry, Simon. I love your videos, I always watch them. There are well presented and well researched. However, as someone who lives in La Paz and has driven this road over 100 times and cycled the road 16 times, I need to correct a few things - sorry to be "that guy") 1 - The town Coroico is pronounced "KO-ROY-KO", not "Coritzio". 2 - The actual dangerous part of the road isn't 53km long. The dirt road is about 20km at most. The 53km value starts at the city limits of La Paz. There is a perfectly fine asphalt surface from the city, up to the mountain tops (La cumbre) and then down, and THEN you can turn off to the old road (The "death road") 3 - The road doesn't end at Coroico, it ends at a community called Yolosa. There is another asphalt road from there, up another mountain to the town of Coroico. 4 - Your narrative implies that people speed down the road and can slide off the road at high speed and go off the cliff, when in fact you won't surpass 15-20mph at best in a car. Even less on a bicycle. It IS dangerous if you're an idiot (I admit, the world has no shortage of idiots), but now that there is a new road, you're unlikely to encounter more than 4-5 other cars on the entire dirt road - meaning it's a nice relaxing sunday drive. 5 - The Top Gear Bolivia special part where Clarkson passes a white SUV was 100% staged. They chose the most narrow part of the whole road on purpose (There is a wider place to pass just 30m before that place), and Clarkson was facing the wrong way. Cars going up to La Paz drive on the left side, with the rising mounting on their left. The reason for this, is that drivers coming down FROM La Paz can look out of their drivers side window and see how close they are to the cliff drop. 6 - Cyclists pay a flat fee of 50 Bolivianos at the community of Pongo. It's not 25 + 25 as stated. Also, almost all companies that offer cycling tours down the road take a nice slow and sightseeing tour, not a downhill race. There HAVE been cyclist deaths, but the cyclists themselves were not riding responsibly. It's not a case of "one wrong move, one slip... and you're dead". Nothing like that at all. It's actually a really nice day out. 7 - You don't need to be a "experienced" mountain biker to travel down the road. You just have to take it easy and enjoy the day. If you go racing down the road on a bike, then it IS dangerous. 8 - Lots of tourists arrive and want the bragging rights to say "I've cycled the most dangerous road in the world". The reality is that it's NOT that steep, you DON'T have to ride the brakes all the way down, and at some of the worst places it's only 3.5m wide, which is more than enough for a bicycle to safely enjoy. The rest of the road is wide enough in most parts to have cyclists riding 4 abreast. 9 - The new bypass road (Ruta Nacional 3) does not have sidewalks. 10 - I 100% recommend cycling the road if you get the chance. You go from freezing temperatures in the mountain tops, starting by a small lake, down an asphalt road. Then you turn right and onto the "death road" after about 90 minutes. As you descend, you will stop periodically for snacks and photo opportunities. Depending on the time of year, you will have to cycle under some waterfalls, which feel like heavy rain at worst. As you descend, the temperture will steadily rise and you'll find yourself removing layers of clothing at each stop. When you get to Yolosa, you'll be in t-shirt and shorts due to the heat and humidity. It's a fantastic day out, with breath-taking views. You feel like you're passing through several different climates as you descend, and depending on which tour company you use, you can experience some amazing places at the bottom, before a bus will take you back up to La Paz. As previously mentioned, the only vehicles you will encounter are either tourists who want to drive the road themselves, or people who own houses on the road. In the 20km stretch of dirt road, you'd be lucky to enounter more than 5 cars the whole way. And NONE of those cars is racing up/down the road like mad people. The road is almost 100% exclusively for cyclists now. Again, sorry Simon. Love your videos. You haven't lost a fan. But I had to comment on this one as it's something I have first hand information on. Keep up the great work!
@notakalou except it's not "one small mistake". There is more than enough room for a bus for 99% of the road. One small mistake on a bike means that nothing will happen, unless you're riding right in the edge of the cliff
@ you could be driving on a highway or a small backroad and on small mistake can send you off the road. It doesn’t really matter what road it’s just that this road will send you off a cliff
I watched that Top Gear episode, man that part gave me chills down my spine just watching it. Clarkson threading very carefully not to go over the edge and Hammond almost being pushed into the ravine by a bus coming from the opposite direction brute forcing its way.
The part where Clarkson is edging past the white SUV was staged. The TG team were going from Beni to La Paz, meaning they were traveling UP the road, not down. Which means Clarkson would have been driving on the left side of the road with the high mountain next to him, not the drop off. They also chose the most narrow part of the road to film that piece, when 30m back there is a wider part to let cars pass each other.
Whoever was that Google employee that had to drive that road to map it out and thus let the rest of humanity see what it looks like without actually having to go there, you are one of the last Pioneers to unknown locations in this world. Whoever you are, I hope you are proud of yourself.
I live in Sweden and i have the opposite story as far as dangerous roads goes. There is a part of europe interstate 18 between Oslo and Stockholm that had a large number of accidents awhile back. If you drove there you wouldnt think that it was. Just a long straight section with guardrails in the middle. But the problem is that it is too uneventful and some drivers fall asleep and drive of the road. So dangers can come in many forms on the roads.
I remember watching a documentary thing growing up that said when the US was making the freeway systems they took that into account, which is why many tend to bend and curve so you don’t get tunnel vision.
Long, straight roads are surprisingly problematic. When I visit family back in the state I grew up in, that boring flat drive at the end when I'm tired sucks
There's a new highway that's being built in Malaysia, only 38km is fully completed and opened for public use. There's almost 100km that's on construction and connecting to the old 70km highway. Soon it will be 200+km highway and just some regular bends. Every time I rode for 400km, that 70km highway stretch always tire me out. That's so many car or truck sleeping at the entry way especially at night. That's just in one state,while there's another one under construction in another state. My estimate it's a 300+km highway fully connected
Klaus Barbie - an infamous Nazi war criminal's house was on that road, the company I used were really good, everyone had a ride down a regular road to get a feel for their bike and could swap for one of the backup bikes, this was in 2013
I know I’ve had a long day at work when I read the title of the video, Simon opens it by saying “roads” and I hear “Rhodes” and think, cool, a video about Greece. 🇬🇷 😂
i have seen enough of those dangerous roads, we have to drive in a giant truck that is made up of different parts of different trucks and hope we can make it and if we could get stuck for days! Simon is the best
I travelled on this road both in a bus and a rented 4 x 4 in around 1998. Despite 2 attempts we never got to Coroico, too many big landslides and ultimately way too scary. You'll never understand until you've been in a bus passing a truck coming the opposite way on a hairpin bend on that road, the fear is impossible to describe.
I wonder if this is just the most known. My time in the Peruvian cloud forest between the Sacred Valley and Quallabama had a road that sounds just like this one, even after it was paved.
I had some interesting road trips with my backseat-driving grandmother backseat driving while my manic-driving uncle did the driving. He would always do the opposite of what she said, and she never took a break. If only we could have taken this road!
Saying I will never drive that road is the easiest decision ever. No, it would not be a thrill. It would not be the fun kind of dangerous. It would not be exhilarating. I would not make it. I would be paralyzed at some point, waiting for someone to rescue me. I am an anxious driver, and know my limits. The highway through the mountains of VA/WV was, truly, a thrill, and a trip I was IMMENSELY proud of completing. It was two lanes, thoroughly paved, painted lines, guard rails in certain places. I remember laughing at a "Look Out For Falling Rocks" sign that had clearly at some point been hit by a falling rock. That was an adrenaline rush. This would be paralyzing.
As much as I love to take a trip on the Death road to say "I've done it" and ticked it off my bucket list. But, No, HELL NO! As part of my job, we calculate risk on various things we get up to. This is just too risky. How the hell Top Gear's risk assessment managers managed to get that one past the producers is just beyond me to be honest. But fair play to them, it did make one hell of a spectacle.
ON of my uncles died going off the road in South America. Another place but a local was driving, it was a business trip he didn't want to go on. I do know it was a very long drop, closed casket.
After watching this and then following the entire road on google street view, I have to say that 'with a caveat' ... we have roads in BC Canada that mirror this, just as wide, just as dirt/gravel. They are called Forestry Service Roads or FSR's, which are not really open to the general public, but logging trucks and the like and First Nations peoples and medical vehicles. You need a radio to be on these roads to call out mileage markers in case you come across a heavy truck and you have to plan the safest way by each other. Every few kilometers a pullout is designed into it to allow this kind of safe passing ... because ... this is Canada, not Columbia. Most 'newer' of these FSR's are a bit wider and kept graded ... not so bad, but just as twisty. The older, less used versions of these roads are what we call 'turkey tracks', and they are usually only one lane wide, washed out and much more twisty than even this Columbian Hwy. Now ... again, this is Canada, so imagine also driving this in winter on 4 feet of snow with fresh powder flying over the windshield. This is normal. The 'caveat' mentioned? Its rare that a Canadian FSR will have a few thousand foot drop down one side. 'Usually' there will be a guardrail or its cut wide if theres a steep cliff bit ... but not always, and bare cliffs are not impossible. This google streetview trip shows that a lot of this Columbia Hwy, ie; the drier twisty bits closer to La Paz, to be like what I have driven here in Canada, but at the other northern end where the images are rain wet, it looks trickier, broken roads, wash outs and substantially thinner. Wouldnt be a fan of driving that part, and wouldnt do it in Canada for work.
I doubt its as dangerouse as this road, i remember when i worked at big sky ski resort in montana, the road to bozeman was truely terrifying. Most of the way you have a frozen river on one side and mountains on the other. I remember getting stranded for 2 days one time after 120 mph winds blew me and my buddies off the road and getting frost bite on my toes before a truck finnaly passed and pulled us out.
Small correction, but La Paz is not the highest capital city in the world, because La Paz is not the capital of Bolivia. The Capital of Bolivia has always been Sucre. Don't blame you tho, tons of people make that mistake. Pretty good video otherwise. I'm Bolivian living in Bolivia and I always like it when UA-camrs I like talk about my country in one way or another.
i have done this. best advice? how good are your brakes? it was pretty fun. i rented a kinda crap bike in la paz , my brakes wore out halfway down and i was forced to take it super slow
Is actually very safe to bike there nowadays as only tourist use it, the only ones who are in danger are those who dont obey the recomendations and ride their bikes too fast
Tbh, as far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter which road is actually the most dangerous out of those described as such. They are all far too dangerous for me to consider attempting ! End of!
It would be cool if they closed the road at least once a year so people could walk it. I'd love to do it but I don't want to get hit by a bike or car. They could even do a marathon down it, the marathon of death or call it something else to draw tourism to the local economy, with police supervision of course. I know there are a lot of gangs there.
With a BBC crew in front and a full support team. They don't just travel in three cars on their own. I'm not saying it wasn't still dangerous but they weren't in an overcrowded bus with one working light.
Bolivian here. Mostly accurate, and still in disbelief of how long it took to replace that road. Still, replaced it was. Now it's almost exclusively used by adventurers. Having said that, you need to work on that pronunciation... I get it's not easy, but you tend to overcomplicate it, Coroico is just pronounced "koroyco", use long o's if you need to, you'll still sound like a gringo but people will understand what you're saying.
Couldn't there be like UN funding for a guardrail to be installed here or something? Seems like it would be very good value for money, saving hundreds of lives just by put up a bit of metal.
My wife was visually impaired. She did have some vision, but not enough for important things like... seeing her feet. She was tall, but not that tall. She was afraid of heights. She always said she wasn't afraid of falling, it was that sudden stop at the bottom. (My roommate, who isn't visually impaired, well, not so much she can't drive, is also afraid of those sudden stops at the bottom.) I've taken probably 8 falls off horses, were they fun, no, those sudden stops are never fun, but I rode more years than I fell off so... that's a win.
How long until some m3th addict base jumps off the road in order to obtain the many catalytic converters that sit below? Sorry, I am from middle America and have had two of them stolen so far. Besides, I don’t believe that anyone other than a m3th addict would be stupid enough to jump into some uninhabited jungle just to snag some catalytic converters. Then again, the same person would somehow survive and make it back to civilization. That’s how the story seems to go.
Idk who needs to hear this but please stop using that music around the 7 minute mark. Over used and F'in annoying. I like learning things from big brain fact boy.
Simon, if things aren't going well, and you can't afford to pay human artists, it might be less embarrassing to just not use a graphic there, instead of using AI ones.
I’m half Bolivian and been to coroico (pronounced koroiko) my mother used to regularly use this road to see the family because my family had businesses in the yungas. The new motorway is great and very safe. Only tourist bikers really use the old road. It’s a beautiful region and worth a trip but avoid the death road, take the modern motorway.
FACT CHECK: (Sorry, Simon. I love your videos, I always watch them. There are well presented and well researched. However, as someone who lives in La Paz and has driven this road over 100 times and cycled the road 16 times, I need to correct a few things - sorry to be "that guy")
1 - The town Coroico is pronounced "KO-ROY-KO", not "Coritzio".
2 - The actual dangerous part of the road isn't 53km long. The dirt road is about 20km at most. The 53km value starts at the city limits of La Paz. There is a perfectly fine asphalt surface from the city, up to the mountain tops (La cumbre) and then down, and THEN you can turn off to the old road (The "death road")
3 - The road doesn't end at Coroico, it ends at a community called Yolosa. There is another asphalt road from there, up another mountain to the town of Coroico.
4 - Your narrative implies that people speed down the road and can slide off the road at high speed and go off the cliff, when in fact you won't surpass 15-20mph at best in a car. Even less on a bicycle. It IS dangerous if you're an idiot (I admit, the world has no shortage of idiots), but now that there is a new road, you're unlikely to encounter more than 4-5 other cars on the entire dirt road - meaning it's a nice relaxing sunday drive.
5 - The Top Gear Bolivia special part where Clarkson passes a white SUV was 100% staged. They chose the most narrow part of the whole road on purpose (There is a wider place to pass just 30m before that place), and Clarkson was facing the wrong way. Cars going up to La Paz drive on the left side, with the rising mounting on their left. The reason for this, is that drivers coming down FROM La Paz can look out of their drivers side window and see how close they are to the cliff drop.
6 - Cyclists pay a flat fee of 50 Bolivianos at the community of Pongo. It's not 25 + 25 as stated. Also, almost all companies that offer cycling tours down the road take a nice slow and sightseeing tour, not a downhill race. There HAVE been cyclist deaths, but the cyclists themselves were not riding responsibly. It's not a case of "one wrong move, one slip... and you're dead". Nothing like that at all. It's actually a really nice day out.
7 - You don't need to be a "experienced" mountain biker to travel down the road. You just have to take it easy and enjoy the day. If you go racing down the road on a bike, then it IS dangerous.
8 - Lots of tourists arrive and want the bragging rights to say "I've cycled the most dangerous road in the world". The reality is that it's NOT that steep, you DON'T have to ride the brakes all the way down, and at some of the worst places it's only 3.5m wide, which is more than enough for a bicycle to safely enjoy. The rest of the road is wide enough in most parts to have cyclists riding 4 abreast.
9 - The new bypass road (Ruta Nacional 3) does not have sidewalks.
10 - I 100% recommend cycling the road if you get the chance. You go from freezing temperatures in the mountain tops, starting by a small lake, down an asphalt road. Then you turn right and onto the "death road" after about 90 minutes. As you descend, you will stop periodically for snacks and photo opportunities. Depending on the time of year, you will have to cycle under some waterfalls, which feel like heavy rain at worst. As you descend, the temperture will steadily rise and you'll find yourself removing layers of clothing at each stop. When you get to Yolosa, you'll be in t-shirt and shorts due to the heat and humidity. It's a fantastic day out, with breath-taking views. You feel like you're passing through several different climates as you descend, and depending on which tour company you use, you can experience some amazing places at the bottom, before a bus will take you back up to La Paz.
As previously mentioned, the only vehicles you will encounter are either tourists who want to drive the road themselves, or people who own houses on the road. In the 20km stretch of dirt road, you'd be lucky to enounter more than 5 cars the whole way. And NONE of those cars is racing up/down the road like mad people. The road is almost 100% exclusively for cyclists now.
Again, sorry Simon. Love your videos. You haven't lost a fan. But I had to comment on this one as it's something I have first hand information on. Keep up the great work!
Best answer ever!
Even if the top gear episode was staged( which it obviously was) he still was driving on the cliff
He’s not implying you’re speeding down the road at all, in fact multiple times in the video he says it’s about one small mistake and slip
@notakalou except it's not "one small mistake". There is more than enough room for a bus for 99% of the road. One small mistake on a bike means that nothing will happen, unless you're riding right in the edge of the cliff
@ you could be driving on a highway or a small backroad and on small mistake can send you off the road. It doesn’t really matter what road it’s just that this road will send you off a cliff
I watched that Top Gear episode, man that part gave me chills down my spine just watching it. Clarkson threading very carefully not to go over the edge and Hammond almost being pushed into the ravine by a bus coming from the opposite direction brute forcing its way.
I like the bike helmet on the desk like "safety first everyone!" Because that's going to help you in your 1km fall
One of the best Top Gear specials explored this resiculous road.
The part where Clarkson is edging past the white SUV was staged. The TG team were going from Beni to La Paz, meaning they were traveling UP the road, not down. Which means Clarkson would have been driving on the left side of the road with the high mountain next to him, not the drop off. They also chose the most narrow part of the road to film that piece, when 30m back there is a wider part to let cars pass each other.
Resiculous? A new word. I need to read more.😊
@proculusjulius7035 how'd that s get there... :)
Whoever was that Google employee that had to drive that road to map it out and thus let the rest of humanity see what it looks like without actually having to go there, you are one of the last Pioneers to unknown locations in this world.
Whoever you are, I hope you are proud of yourself.
I drove this road twice in the mid sixties. Once on a Honda Trail 90 motorcycle and once a VW Beetle. Was fun as a teen.
Thank you for doing a specialized episode on this after having it top a recent compilation video
You know a road is terrifying when it makes Jezza Hamster & Captain Slow soil their pants.
Legendary Top Gear moments.😅❤
When top gear was top gear!!! The good ol day's .. .
CLARKSOOOOONN 😂
Yeah May sounded legitimately scared when he asked Hammond not to leave him 💀
@@Special_K_42069 HAMMMMMOOOOOOOOONNNNDDDD
I live in Sweden and i have the opposite story as far as dangerous roads goes. There is a part of europe interstate 18 between Oslo and Stockholm that had a large number of accidents awhile back. If you drove there you wouldnt think that it was. Just a long straight section with guardrails in the middle. But the problem is that it is too uneventful and some drivers fall asleep and drive of the road. So dangers can come in many forms on the roads.
I remember watching a documentary thing growing up that said when the US was making the freeway systems they took that into account, which is why many tend to bend and curve so you don’t get tunnel vision.
Long, straight roads are surprisingly problematic. When I visit family back in the state I grew up in, that boring flat drive at the end when I'm tired sucks
I experienced that effect driving through Iowa in the US. Almost zoned out completely- that road stretching to infinity is mind numbing.
@@Katzenjammerz67 and the deer are positively suicidal in that area. You never know when that boredom is broken up by a fur missile
There's a new highway that's being built in Malaysia, only 38km is fully completed and opened for public use. There's almost 100km that's on construction and connecting to the old 70km highway. Soon it will be 200+km highway and just some regular bends.
Every time I rode for 400km, that 70km highway stretch always tire me out. That's so many car or truck sleeping at the entry way especially at night.
That's just in one state,while there's another one under construction in another state. My estimate it's a 300+km highway fully connected
I'd love to see more videos on all the dangerous roads of the world
I love these dangerous roads you are doing…….. please keep them coming if possible.
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My autism loves the dangerous road videos
Klaus Barbie - an infamous Nazi war criminal's house was on that road, the company I used were really good, everyone had a ride down a regular road to get a feel for their bike and could swap for one of the backup bikes, this was in 2013
Would make a pretty cool dirt bike ride, the guys taking commercial vehicles there are a different breed
I know I’ve had a long day at work when I read the title of the video, Simon opens it by saying “roads” and I hear “Rhodes” and think, cool, a video about Greece. 🇬🇷 😂
ok the end of the video made me smile and send chills down at the same time
i have seen enough of those dangerous roads, we have to drive in a giant truck that is made up of different parts of different trucks and hope we can make it and if we could get stuck for days! Simon is the best
I travelled on this road both in a bus and a rented 4 x 4 in around 1998. Despite 2 attempts we never got to Coroico, too many big landslides and ultimately way too scary. You'll never understand until you've been in a bus passing a truck coming the opposite way on a hairpin bend on that road, the fear is impossible to describe.
R.I.P Ray Mears and Ted Nugent (Top Gear Joke 😃)
I see you too are a man of culture.
And then Jeremy Clarkson went to the hotel and had a peppered steak and went to bed.
@@sirosisofliverr after a simple ceremony
INONIC
I wonder if this is just the most known. My time in the Peruvian cloud forest between the Sacred Valley and Quallabama had a road that sounds just like this one, even after it was paved.
Thanks for mentioning Top Gear! that scene is still terrifying even though i know it like the back of my hand!
Try cycling the Anzob “Tunnel of death” in Tajikistan. I wondered if I would survive it in an SUV.
Ice Road Truckers did a spinoff season on El Camino de la Muerte. Mad stuff.
10:15 you can also drive part of it in the game Ghost Recon Wildlands.
There’s a section of highway near me that’s claim to be the most dangerous in America. It’s near the Fort Lauderdale airport.
I had some interesting road trips with my backseat-driving grandmother backseat driving while my manic-driving uncle did the driving. He would always do the opposite of what she said, and she never took a break. If only we could have taken this road!
Saying I will never drive that road is the easiest decision ever. No, it would not be a thrill. It would not be the fun kind of dangerous. It would not be exhilarating. I would not make it. I would be paralyzed at some point, waiting for someone to rescue me. I am an anxious driver, and know my limits.
The highway through the mountains of VA/WV was, truly, a thrill, and a trip I was IMMENSELY proud of completing. It was two lanes, thoroughly paved, painted lines, guard rails in certain places. I remember laughing at a "Look Out For Falling Rocks" sign that had clearly at some point been hit by a falling rock.
That was an adrenaline rush. This would be paralyzing.
Clint Eastwood, Magnum Force - " a man has GOT to know his limitations." 🙂
As much as I love to take a trip on the Death road to say "I've done it" and ticked it off my bucket list. But, No, HELL NO!
As part of my job, we calculate risk on various things we get up to. This is just too risky.
How the hell Top Gear's risk assessment managers managed to get that one past the producers is just beyond me to be honest.
But fair play to them, it did make one hell of a spectacle.
Reminds me of a few roads on the ring of kerry
Come On The Kingdom!!!
ON of my uncles died going off the road in South America. Another place but a local was driving, it was a business trip he didn't want to go on. I do know it was a very long drop, closed casket.
That looks super fun to bike. On my bike.
Technically, La Paz is not the capìtal of the country, but other than that I think you got the rest spot on.
Even viewing it through Google Maps from the safety of your own home is too dangerous.
After watching this and then following the entire road on google street view, I have to say that 'with a caveat' ... we have roads in BC Canada that mirror this, just as wide, just as dirt/gravel.
They are called Forestry Service Roads or FSR's, which are not really open to the general public, but logging trucks and the like and First Nations peoples and medical vehicles. You need a radio to be on these roads to call out mileage markers in case you come across a heavy truck and you have to plan the safest way by each other. Every few kilometers a pullout is designed into it to allow this kind of safe passing ... because ... this is Canada, not Columbia.
Most 'newer' of these FSR's are a bit wider and kept graded ... not so bad, but just as twisty.
The older, less used versions of these roads are what we call 'turkey tracks', and they are usually only one lane wide, washed out and much more twisty than even this Columbian Hwy. Now ... again, this is Canada, so imagine also driving this in winter on 4 feet of snow with fresh powder flying over the windshield. This is normal.
The 'caveat' mentioned? Its rare that a Canadian FSR will have a few thousand foot drop down one side.
'Usually' there will be a guardrail or its cut wide if theres a steep cliff bit ... but not always, and bare cliffs are not impossible. This google streetview trip shows that a lot of this Columbia Hwy, ie; the drier twisty bits closer to La Paz, to be like what I have driven here in Canada, but at the other northern end where the images are rain wet, it looks trickier, broken roads, wash outs and substantially thinner.
Wouldnt be a fan of driving that part, and wouldnt do it in Canada for work.
Do airports/runways next 😃
I doubt its as dangerouse as this road, i remember when i worked at big sky ski resort in montana, the road to bozeman was truely terrifying. Most of the way you have a frozen river on one side and mountains on the other. I remember getting stranded for 2 days one time after 120 mph winds blew me and my buddies off the road and getting frost bite on my toes before a truck finnaly passed and pulled us out.
Small correction, but La Paz is not the highest capital city in the world, because La Paz is not the capital of Bolivia. The Capital of Bolivia has always been Sucre. Don't blame you tho, tons of people make that mistake.
Pretty good video otherwise. I'm Bolivian living in Bolivia and I always like it when UA-camrs I like talk about my country in one way or another.
18:47 the fact that Simon could tell that tired old joke with such gravitas proves that he doesn’t really process what he’s saying.
2:04 La Paz is not Bolivia's capital, it's just the city that does everything you would expect a capital to do. The capital is Sucre.
It's the "Administrative Capital". Therefore, as a technicality, a "Capital"
i have done this. best advice? how good are your brakes? it was pretty fun. i rented a kinda crap bike in la paz , my brakes wore out halfway down and i was forced to take it super slow
Kind of sounds like the silver lining is the sun glinting off of a mushroom cloud.
There is a Dead Mans Corner on the M9 in Scotland that has a dedicated cemetery..
Is actually very safe to bike there nowadays as only tourist use it, the only ones who are in danger are those who dont obey the recomendations and ride their bikes too fast
The incident with Clarkson was a setup with a crew car, but the cliff and risk was still real!
Wait? Why is it only half mapped? Did they make him turn around?
danger tourism at it's finest, good luck getting travel insurance for that one.
It's almost as deadly as driving in Houston on a slow day.
You should do the Ho Chi Min trail
I am travelling to Bolivia next year. I do not have the stomach to go to this road. 😆
It's honestly not as bad as Simon and other website portray it. It's actually a really nice day out!
@AmigosThree interesting, might have to look into it then!
Dude, you're flipped sleeve is driving me crazy.
I would much rather drive this road than the dragons tail on a holiday weekend when its clogged with harleys, goldwings, and boomers.
so they widened the road in parts but didn't install rails?
Discovery channel sent some of the Ice Road Truckers to India. The roads there are just as dangerous.
History channel did that for season 1 of Ice Road Truckers Deadliest Roads, in season 2, they drove on this road
@fontheking5 History, Discovery. Its been awhile! Thanks for the correction!
10:13 "partway up" you can't turn around on this road. did the google car go off the cliffs?
My heart rate goes crazy on a chiff with a large road and no guard rails. Fuck this shit!
Sounds like lesotho's sani pass x10😮
Tbh, as far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter which road is actually the most dangerous out of those described as such. They are all far too dangerous for me to consider attempting ! End of!
At least Paddington can roar across that valley and await Aunt Lucy's response.
So haven’t it bren shut down?
uwu simon i will always be here in the 1st minute of your videos since theyve been uploaded to like them, mwah:*
BOT!
@jeffdroog scary robot boo
The section on Google Maps is only a section of it because the google maps car went off the edge
How many channels does this guy have lmao
A lot.
It would be cool if they closed the road at least once a year so people could walk it. I'd love to do it but I don't want to get hit by a bike or car. They could even do a marathon down it, the marathon of death or call it something else to draw tourism to the local economy, with police supervision of course. I know there are a lot of gangs there.
Didn't top gear do this one?
yeah they did
Watch the video lmao
With a BBC crew in front and a full support team. They don't just travel in three cars on their own. I'm not saying it wasn't still dangerous but they weren't in an overcrowded bus with one working light.
@@stuartmorley6894Hammonds car was a catastrophe tho if it was truly as bad as they presented it to be with that steering and the lights.
Bolivian here. Mostly accurate, and still in disbelief of how long it took to replace that road. Still, replaced it was. Now it's almost exclusively used by adventurers.
Having said that, you need to work on that pronunciation... I get it's not easy, but you tend to overcomplicate it, Coroico is just pronounced "koroyco", use long o's if you need to, you'll still sound like a gringo but people will understand what you're saying.
"IN 200 FEET BEAR LEFT ONTO ROAD OF DEATH..."
...wait wtf you just say Google Maps?
I thought cycles were vehicles.
Couldn't there be like UN funding for a guardrail to be installed here or something? Seems like it would be very good value for money, saving hundreds of lives just by put up a bit of metal.
Lets be real most of us know this road for one reason only.
Woot first
My wife was visually impaired. She did have some vision, but not enough for important things like... seeing her feet. She was tall, but not that tall. She was afraid of heights. She always said she wasn't afraid of falling, it was that sudden stop at the bottom. (My roommate, who isn't visually impaired, well, not so much she can't drive, is also afraid of those sudden stops at the bottom.) I've taken probably 8 falls off horses, were they fun, no, those sudden stops are never fun, but I rode more years than I fell off so... that's a win.
This is where Richard Hammond was nearly macheted to death
How long until some m3th addict base jumps off the road in order to obtain the many catalytic converters that sit below? Sorry, I am from middle America and have had two of them stolen so far. Besides, I don’t believe that anyone other than a m3th addict would be stupid enough to jump into some uninhabited jungle just to snag some catalytic converters. Then again, the same person would somehow survive and make it back to civilization. That’s how the story seems to go.
I think I'll take the train.
maybe up during the morning down at night. two way traffic is wild
So why not pay Elon Musk to come in with his tunnel borer and dig a tunnel through the mountains? A four lane tunnel with a breakdown lane?
Remind me not to go there.
Wow Simon. You're really dark in this one. Literally. Turn on a light in the closet so we can see you. Or did you get locked in the basement?
Idk who needs to hear this but please stop using that music around the 7 minute mark. Over used and F'in annoying. I like learning things from big brain fact boy.
This bald guy again...no thanks
Where is Pastrana? You know he’d take a Hoonigan car on that!
Simon, if things aren't going well, and you can't afford to pay human artists, it might be less embarrassing to just not use a graphic there, instead of using AI ones.
Cyclists going against their best interests, and ignoring signs. What else is new 🤷🦧
😂😂😂