The Bike Ride That Mocks Death - The extreme sport of the gravity fed bike ride down the deadliest road in the world, is not a challenge to be accepted by the faint hearted.
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The extreme sport of the gravity fed bike ride down the deadliest road in the world, is not a challenge to be accepted by the faint hearted.
Author: Lyn Thomas
Date: Apr 24, 2009 - 1:08:15 AM
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Commencing high in the Bolivian Alps, is the world’s most perilous road, known as the Road of Death (El Camino de la Muerta), built in the 1930’s. The condition of your vehicle doesn’t matter, the locals say, “Prayer is the only way to got over it in one piece”.
The road drops almost 3.600 metres, on its narrow 64
kilometre trail. There is no protection and no guard rails, with steep walls
disappearing hundreds of metres to the
At a cool 4,700 metres, lies the bleak and windswept La Cumbre, one of the globe’s highest cities, enclosed by glaciated peaks, the beginning of the world’s deadliest gravity-fed bike ride.
As the group of bikers prepare themselves to face the remainder of the challenge of the most precarious road in the world, after having raced down the prelude at tear streaming speeds of 80 km per hour, the guide firmly instructs them, “Make sure you give way to anything bigger than yourself.”
Occasionally one of the tourist bikers changes his mind and
backs out, choosing to return to
Not everybody who is brave enough to travel the road, makes it successfully. Signs of previous accidents are easily seen. There are no emergency services available on this remote road.
At the completion of the ride, the cyclists, having dropped 3,600 death defying metres, sit in a bar drinking margaritas. It isn’t the legs nor the arms that throb from the exertion, but the hands, from applying so much pressure to the breaks, throughout the white-knuckle gravity-fed fling down the mountain.
A much safer road that will substitute the current death trap has been twenty years in the making and is nowhere near completion yet.
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