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Peter_L · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:13 am Post subject: .... this is the wide part

To Quote Sir Michael Caine: "You haven't heard the good news. This is the wide part"

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

I've seen that picture before but it gives me the willies (or possibly Willys) every time I see it.

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MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2722 Location: South Cheshire

Makes the recent TG expedition narrow roads seem expansive. Some of these photos are awful though - search on "el caminito del rey" for some worrying sections of path, though it seems they've made it a bit safer now.

And this video of a photographer going the extra mile to get a photo from the top of a tall hotel goes well until about 2m30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_b22TVY7s

I love the idea of getting the photos, not quite so sure about the climbing up high stuff to do so. A lot of the "high" sections of various Urban Exploration web sites have some cracking shots.

Rootes75 · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:56 am Post subject:

Not for the faint hearted..
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

Bolivia

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Peter_L · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 3:55 pm Post subject:

MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2722 Location: South Cheshire

That looks like the one on TG - I couldn't remember which of the specials it was on.

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

http://dumpest.com/the-most-dangerous-road-in-the-world/

Or worse..

http://www.samipoint.com/a-very-dangerous-road-accident/
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roverdriver · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:09 pm Post subject:

Frightening roads, those! My own experiences have been nothing like any of them, but working at gorse spraying on New Zealand farms in the 1960's had me driving on some narrow tracks. Unfortunately, as the driver, I never managed to get out to take photos (there wasn't enough room!).

This photo was taken from the cab of my truck. The track that I am driving on is just a foot wider than the truck. You can see two other trucks and the Land Rover below on a much wider track.

Here I am crossing much more level countryside.

Those 'roads' were a lot of fun after rain, when even with four wheel chains on, the truck would slide away down the track.
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