Watch this video: vehicle traveling on Himalayan mountain road

[Capt. Obvious]

I expect this to be a new ride at Disney.

[seabeyond]

1. i did one of these roads driving to silverton colorado. only 15,000 ft. i swear. JUST like this.

i have not been the same since.

[randr]

3. Know that pass well-Telluride to Silverton

Locals call it ToHellyouride. Not quite the same depth of ravine but the overhang thing is what gets to me. Love crossing the river at the top at the edge of the water fall.

[seabeyond]

4. i have nightmares, still. nt

[randr]

5. I,ll go do it again this summer for you

[seabeyond]

6. yikes.... dont do it.

when i finally got into town, went to the bar for some wine. internally shaking. ever done that? it is a mess. told the locals.... ya but, people arent falling off the road. so it is safe. so i shouldnt be this bothered.

the local told me...

no, one just went over today

WTF....

stupidly i said... they survived though, right? lol

DON'T do it.

lol

my then 18 yr old kept saying he would drive for me. no fuggin way.

he wants to do the drive this summer. no no no... i say.

i really is pretty though. but, not worth the drive. when with hubby, i just sat on the floor and read a book. that is the way to do it.

[Boom Sound 416]

10. Did one in Peru. 15-16k feet as well

In a box bus (cab separate from passengers)

[Tsiyu]

11. Silverton to Durango

In June.

Free range cattle, locals who drove like maniacs, fog and snow when we got to the highest elevations. Me in a Suburban following hubby pulling a travel trailer with his Ram, telling me on CB if I start to slide off to try to ram into the trailer.

There is a video where you hear us praying as the camera shakily records the sick drop-off

It IS a family legend.

There WAS pants-peeing involved.

As soon as I saw the OP video, I thought of that road.

Secretly I'd love to see it again.

[seabeyond]

13. ya. that. JUST THAT....

lmFao.

see. hubby drove the first time. i sat on the floor mostly. remember one time getting really fearful and i never looked again.

i decided last summer i would be brave. conquer my fear. face it. walk into it. looking it boldly in the eye

i wimpered

i wimper today.

i obsessed thinking how to get off the fuggin mountain. the other way off the mountain worse, into ouray. lol. could i hire helicopter? hire someone to drive the car off the mountain. not off off, like off cliff. but lower ground, lol.

oh... then i had to continue trip into northern calif, oregon, washington, idaho and montana. do you know? lots of mountains there. the terror.... of a little hill. not knowing what was to come.

i hear ya. too much. thanks for the story.

oh and ... went to colorado springs a couple weeks ago. i feel danger, on a mountain with whole state now, and i am trying to come to peace with parts of colorado, cause i want to move there. anyway. i would tell people about silverton. EVERY resident that did not know it would say, coward. EVERY person that has driven it would suck in breath and tell their story. it was to fuggin funny.

and those that did not know the mountain either got excited to do, for simple risk taking. or they were horrified such a road existed.

it is too funny.

[Tsiyu]

17. It was the VERY LAST TIME hubby got to plan the route by computer

using trip planner. DeLorne or some such.

When it started getting dark and snowing, and we were slipping a little going around those Wiley Coyote turns, I just about had a heart attack.

We had to pick up one of the youngins doing para-rescue camp in Albuquerque after that wild ride, and were running late, but I still made hubby follow the flat way through the reservations to get there.

I get you about Colorado, too. A lot of us here in TN are planning to try to get some land there. I love CO, and would even live at those heights if I had a burro or llama. Driving is insane...

[seabeyond]

22. are you?

right here and now i am see advantages. two yrs from now would work a tad better. and i might have to do that. but.... there are advantages now. the houses are taking a dip down. and man are they expensive. lol. and there are a few other advantages that may outweigh the waiting a couple yrs.

i will see.

i started using google to drive the mountains. after that, the boys and i were observing elevation, and road to mountain. we would make a stop and say k.... so what is up ahead. lol. we took a three hour detour in utah to avoid a pass. but, we loved what we ran into on that detour. by montana i learned what to ask. as much as i hated not doing the less direct paths, it is so all over well worth staying on the interstates.

[seabeyond]

14. off the mountain, hit downtown durango and had lunch.

the boys and i love downtown durango.

[shanemcg]

2. Wow, it would be nice to live where you can afford to holiday n/t

[jakeXT]

7. How about some luge training ?

[tblue37]

8. Eeek! Water makes roads *slippery*!

[B2G]

9. And I thought the Road to Hanna was bad

No freakin way. And I can't believe the road under the waterfall hasn't been washed out.

[sabrina 1]

12. Omg!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. Mulholland drive nearly caused my mom a heart attack when we were kids.

This would surely have killed her.

[Tikki]

18. We'd take all the guys who came over from Britain* on that ride…preferably in a big ole' car...

A few would say…"Do it again"…just a few, though.


The Tikkis
*my husband worked with a young British man and when his friends would visit or relocate we always tried
to take them down Mulholland or Laurel Canyon soon after they got here.

[Tikki]

16. They are having such a good time…what a grand memory...

Tikki

[Owl]

19. I hope that's a one-way road....

[Capt. Obvious]

20. They're only driving one way

[Eleanors38]

21. And no road signs!