Although annoyingly spead over two pages this is a nice post on dangerous roads (and a hiking trail or two).

Driving in downtown Vancouver is pretty suicidal, these roads have even that minor circle of hell beat. Who the hell would drive on this while sober:

North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for motorists. It runs in the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost 3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and 800-meter abyss near-misses. A fatal accident happens there every couple of weeks, 100-200 people perish there every year. The July disaster brought the death toll during the previous eight months to 55. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank dubbed the La Paz-to-Coroico route “the world’s most dangerous road.”

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