Midway through Bolivia, where the Amazon and the Andes meet, is a notoriously beautiful and treacherous path. Officially known as North Yungas Road but more infamously as “The Death Road,” this track ...
It's 12 feet wide, at best, and descends nearly 12,000 feet in just over 40 miles, winding through the Amazon rainforest with a lack of guardrails and an even more significant absence of visibility ...
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia´s "Death Road" might seem an odd place for a septuagenarian grandmother on two wheels. The world´s most dangerous road spirals skyward nearly 11,000 feet, from the country´s ...
[This story originally appeared in the December 2006 issue of MotorTrend.] Statistically speaking, the world’s most dangerous road is a 40-mile-long gravel ledge hacked into a Bolivian mountainside in ...
Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep with congratulations to Mirtha Munoz. Years ago, she co-founded a terrifying bike race. The Skyrace has riders in Bolivia climbing 11,000 feet in the mountains. People ...
Watch as a biker attempts to base jump off Bolivia’s famous Death Road and fails badly. Don’t worry, he survived, but it was really painful: “injuries included ...
According to the U.S. State Department, the political and social situation in Bolivia remains uncertain since the resignation of President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and the violence that accompanied ...
Camogie star Ashling Thompson and Paralympic gold medallist Ellen Keane are set to take on some of the world’s “worst and most dangerous terrain” in this week’s Uncharted with Ray Goggins. On this ...
LA PAZ, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Bolivian police found the body of a Canadian tourist who disappeared a month ago cycling down the infamous "Death Road," a steep, winding highway in the mountains near La ...