Which of these roads have you been on?

Did some dodgy roads
Nepal towards Tibet. One very muddy stretch in a minibus where we had to get out and push, another Bridge washed away. We walked over a temporary bridge of 4 telegraph poles to a different vehicle.
Pakistan a mountain roadin the Hindu Kush partially blocked by a landslip.
The Karokoram "highway" over the Khunjerab pass into western China.
Taxi to the Khyber pass with an armed escort. ( A man with a Lee Enfield rifle)
Motorhome The Col de Mont Cenis The Grimsel pass and others, Scotland the coast road to Lochinver and the Applecross road.
 
1.The mountain roads are notoriously bad when it comes to land slips. Being a relatively new country it suffers lots of earthquakes.
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2. We bricked it on a mountain road in Safaraq, Northern Turkey, the road became unsealed, then narrower, then just petered out. Had to reverse for about half a mile before we could do a 12ish point turn.

3. Connors Pass in Ireland, fine if you are in a car, a total freak out in a MH because the way the cliff side juts out pushing you closer to the edge and hundreds of feet drop off.

4. Hard Knott Pass, uphill in a Jag with faulty brakes, they just didn't hold when I braked to let someone pass, had to reverse it into a boulder to come to a stop.

5. Most of inner London 3 months after passing my test.

6. Getting lost at night in the Troodos mountains in Cyprus. We ended up spending the night in a monks cell in a mountain Monastery after a kind policeman guided us there.

7. The moorland road from the Tan Hill Inn towards Hawes in a MH. The hairpin is the steepest, tightest and narrowest we've ever come across and there is no barrier to save you from dropping 80' or so. Shortly after we did it, a bin lorry didn't!

8. Some of the mountain roads in Scotland.
 
I've done the Hard Knott Pass, Wrynose pass, the Bealach na Ba and in fact most of the notorious one's in the UK.

The ones in the video are definitely more extreme but you would be just as dead if you rolled off of some of the British ones, although safety barriers are used more - but not always.
 
Some stupid un named road over the pyrenees, in my tiny van, the trucks do not accommodate and I thought I was going to be driven over so had to drive faster than I was comfortable with. At the other side I stopped and you could smell the brakes......never, ever, again.
 
Moonraker 2 said:
Some stupid un named road over the pyrenees, in my tiny van, the trucks do not accommodate and I thought I was going to be driven over so had to drive faster than I was comfortable with. At the other side I stopped and you could smell the brakes......never, ever, again.
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About thirty years ago, we rented a static in LaCapelle Biron, Dordogne. However, the place had a microclimate with thunderstorms at about 9:00pm. every night and so we decided to go on a road trip for a few days. Jan wanted to visit Lourdes, so we went there and then followed the D934 over the Pyrenees to Huesca in Spain. We were driving through thick fog (low cloud) with sheer drops to our right and trucks coming at us way too fast. Never been so frightened on a road in my life. The most amazing thing about that road was when we got to the Spanish border and the cloud ended. We stopped in the next pull-in and looked back to note the border almost exactly coincided with the wall of cloud!
 
I've driven the Hard Knott and Wrynose pass both ways in torrential rain. We did Bealach na Ba in the fog, just as everyone else was coming back from the Applecross games. Also walked through the traffic in Saigon and Hanoi, the trick is to keep moving and let the vehicle drivers decide if they want to go in front or behind you.
 
Done endless passes and high up tracks on the bikes. Scariest one was high up in the Dolomites on the old Peugeot two stroke scooter. Coming down a really steep goat track both brakes faded and failed. Not good news on an automatic. Luckily we weren't going fast and I managed to steer into the rising grass verge. Michelle decided to walk down though. 😂
 
Scariest for us was doing the Bealach in ridiculously high winds with reports of 100mph gusts. I swear we were up on 2 wheels at one point - it was dark with light snow so Julie couldn't see the drop. Apparently they closed it down just after we got into Applecross which was in darkness due to powercuts.

Later that night a motorhome did actually blow over on the campsite up the road from the Inn.

Thankfully I made the Inn before closing time although it was in candlelight.
 
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