i promise you china's most dangerous
roads i'll deliver this is mushi county
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hey everybody it's alex here and i have
to tell you i've come up to this amazing
area here i brought you up probably one
of the most dangerous roads i've ever
been on ever so let me just uh
gather my thoughts here
i came on this canyon road
thinking this would be pretty
standard i've been on some mountains in
canada before but uh
nothing
takes it like this now we've been coming
down these roads for a while we're
thousands of meters up
to me this is pretty terrifying in a car
you can see into the distance there
the road starts coming cutting through
this mountain and some people have no
problem flying up and down this road
even with a truck full of glass this is
a this is a challenge this could be a
tough one for me so
um let's hope for the best okay
well everybody as i'm continuing on this
ride that uh well let me just show you
the palm of my hands there it's
completely sweating and you know when
you tell people to kind of slow down
they just don't well between this
vehicle and that guard rail is
death yeah
this is the terrain that we're going
through to capture
the images by drone today
i've seen roads in my country
but i have never really seen roads that
are just
kind of carved into the side of a rock
face
of an entire mountain range take that in
for a second and really try to
understand how hard it was eight to
build this road really hard to fathom
how much of a drop it is and how complex
this terrain is what a great way to
bring in the morning huh
well now we come to an interesting part
in the road
nothing like being on the phone
driving up the side of a mountain with a
car that's in reverse
well just stopped off at the side of the
road here
27 kilometers just kind of winding the
atlantean great canyon welcomes your
visit doesn't that remind you
of a traditional chinese painting
this is the township and i'm gonna show
you behind me here there's only six six
families that live up here
we have
what a lovely lady i believe those are
potatoes getting in the old kitchen
there nice to see you
the government's got a focus on make
this a tourist destination i wouldn't
say mass tourism because it's it's not
easy to get out here it's extremely
difficult
but imagine that
here's some potatoes drawing them out
another beautiful day goes on in china
a professional drone pilot joining me
here
very intense ride so far and i know
there's an even more intense ride ahead
this is the route
showing various sites you can even just
see the windy roads and this one carved
right into the side of the rock face
wise man here
hi
getting ready for a nice meal isn't that
great you can just enjoy the nature and
the only worry that you got in the world
is to make sure that you have a great
meal with your friends and family all
right let's get back into the car
now we're back to old traditional ways
of driving
where the roads are so narrow that you
actually have to
honk the horn
to let the oncoming traffic know
well you hear it
we've got about one meter to play with
and of course some walking pedestrians
on this cliff road ad for adventures
yeah
and maybe our driver could slow down a
little water
this is the start of
i have no words for what i'm showing you
guys now but uh let's have a look at
that you can see where this is the road
that the
villagers developed look at how close we
are to the wall here look what waits for
us on the other side
wow this is just incredible and i'm
gonna actually
just try to put this camera out as far
as i can
you guys can see what i'm seeing here
very high
very dangerous
um
i'm kind of speechless this looks way
more intimidating in person
than it does when you're watching a
video
just take that in
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you want to see a bigger test have a
look at this
but in china they got to make it even
more interesting
that's below my feet
now they call it the landing sky road
lanyon township wutshi county chongqing
is at the foot of the
long mountain i've got that wrong but
anyway it's the highest peak in
chongqing and is located in the most
visually striking lanyan grand canyon
isn't that the truth this
is it
isn't this unbelievable i cannot believe
i'm standing here
seeing this okay i'm not going to get
too close to the guardrail as you guys
can see but i want to show you guys
something off into the distance the juji
poor road now they started constructing
that a few months ago
and that whole mountain roads it's being
built with the woopsie government here
and you can see it goes all the way up
to the peak and over top
now what that's done is now finally
it connects these roads together so now
that road is supposed to be scheduled to
be completed by 2023
and it'll go over the top of that
mountain and down the other side and
eventually connect with the road which
is making it even more easier for the
people to be here and as well making it
more accessible for the tourists that
come here what a great spot
for instagram or to do some selfies
fantastic
if you're in china
visit this place
you have to come out and support these
types of villages here
this isn't your typical uh tourist
destination oh no no no
we're probably 25 30 kilometers out of
wuxi
uh county and behind me here the
fantastic rock face the villagers
built the road without massive machinery
they used you know heavy metal spikes to
cut into the rock face they chiseled it
and they built it themselves with their
bare hands in the mid-summer of 2001
these very spot 23 families 83 villagers
in this area relied mostly on primitive
tools now think about this steel drills
hammers
baskets
four years and three months carving out
1
200 meters of wall hanging sky road
to get these roads built now that is a
village determined why they did this
road is you're probably asking why they
did this road
i'm gonna hopefully get to talk to
somebody that helped build this thing
okay
and i'm here with mr young and
he looks young he's a young 72 year old
man now i have a question for mr young's
going to help me translate here now this
road was built
with bare hands can i look at his hands
for a moment so these very hands here
from this gentleman
helped build
this spectacular road
to break through the side of the
mountain to build a road for 23 families
now how long did the road take to build
absolutely four years and three months
wow what a spectacular story and when
did we start constructing the road mr
yan
so use your hard work and your your
youth
mr young your youth now i'm going to ask
you a real personal question did anyone
get injured or get hurt when they were
building this road
you need a tnt yes
explosions to just explode the rock face
because the face of this is solid rock
and uh of course you can see we do have
some interested tourists behind us
because this man is definitely a legend
that has dedicated over four years to
build a road
bringing the community which also helps
alleviate poverty in this region i
really wish you
you know a prosperous next few years
with your family and all the villagers
here and i hope that this world sees
this video and comes to spend time in
your village and bring tourism here sir
and now we're going to show you
how treacherous
this topography was to cut through an
entire mountain face
enjoy this
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