After seeing this, rail travel looks more and more enticing!!

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/skC8u4Ok0Kg?rel=0

I cannot post what expletives were uttered on watching that, suffice to say there's no  way I'd be up there!


Paul

 
Couldn't watch more than 1 minute, George



I'm sending you my laundry bill

Adrenaline is brown.

It reminds me of a road I took in Cumbria a few years back.

I got worried when I spotted a bus coming in the opposite direction.

Actually, (and our Kiwi friends will back me up on this) there is a place in New Zealand called Buller Gorge which is a bit hairy, and the road up to Tasmania's only ski field is similar!

Nowhere near as bad as that video, though.

Please hang on to your shreddies, Mick.... we have strict quarantine rules here in Australia. 

Not accessible by road, but a walk in Norway to Pulpit rock 604 metres above the fjord.

Pulpit Rock

My feet

Cheers Tony

Are they your feet? 'Cos if they are you are a brave man.

Watching that video makes me want to live in Belgium. In a bungalow.

 

Too many years ago, I drove safari trucks in Africa and Asia. Asian run was from Nepal to UK, overland, including passage through Iran. 1985, that was fun. Many of the roads in Nth India (Kashmir in particular) and Nepal bear an uncanny resemblance to the one in the OP, except I was driving an old Bedford TK. Fully loaded, with strengthened chassis, weighed in at about 11 ton.
Africa was Jo'burg to London, or vice versa. I reckoned I could cope with anything, due to the Asian roads and then central African roads, so when the chance came to drive up to Livingstonia in Malawi, I said yes, lets do it. Here is a description of the road now:
The roads to Livingstonia do not have any tarmac. There are two ways to go to the town: From Chitimba at Lake Malawi in the north via the S103 (T305), a steep hillside road with multiple hairpin bends, or from the south via T306 and T305, both of which are in poor condition and became almost unusable in the wet season. The roads' condition is very bad and there are no public buses going to Livingstonia. From Chitimba visitors can walk up to Livingstonia via the S103, although this walk does take several hours and is physically challenging.
Of course, I took the northern road. Gave up counting bends at 22, as each bend was at least a 3 point turn. When I did arrive, the missionaries were gobsmacked as they reckoned the largest thing to have got there before was a Jeep! Helluva buzz tho'.
cheers, Bill.

Quote from: NTrain on August 04, 2014, 10:28:29 PM
It reminds me of a road I took in Cumbria a few years back.

I got worried when I spotted a bus coming in the opposite direction.

I think I know that road hardnott pass? ,I nearly burnt my clutch out on the Ford Focus I had at the time because of some idiot in front of me in a 4x4 going dead slow.

I can't remember the name of the road. It was an afterthought on the map we were using.

ie not even a B road.

My wife remembers nearly being plastered against the windscreen as we drove down some very steep sections. She had white knuckles on several occasions, due to the steep drops, mainly on her side of the car, or what seemed to be directly in front of us, as the road did a sharp right hander.

If memory serves, we were trying to find something railway related.....................

It was a few years ago. 

I think I know some of the people involved in that 

Quote from: NTrain on August 05, 2014, 08:59:50 PM
I can't remember the name of the road. It was an afterthought on the map we were using.

ie not even a B road.

My wife remembers nearly being plastered against the windscreen as we drove down some very steep sections. She had white knuckles on several occasions, due to the steep drops, mainly on her side of the car, or what seemed to be directly in front of us, as the road did a sharp right hander.

If memory serves, we were trying to find something railway related.....................

It was a few years ago. 

Yes it was the Hardnott pass, just checked my Road Atlas. The pass brings you near the Coast at Ravenglass and the Eskdale Railway.