For centuries, roads enabled exploration, trade, and travel. But the world's most treacherous roads hold great dangers: even death.

Some roads are wide, splendid, and famous. One road in the Bolivian Andes, which links La Paz with the Yungas region in the tropical lowlands, is not only a commercial route for coca leaves, tropical fruit, and electrical appliances, it is road full of adventure and tragic fates.

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Some roads are wide, splendid, and famous. Others are merely nameless tracks.

Bolivia, Ivory Coast, Georgia

Surrounded by mountains, the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan is a horrific road through dust and ice in Taliban country. Anyone taking this route through the Hindu Kush is challenging fate! It is an arduous link between the capital, the northern part of the country, and Pakistan.

Surrounded by mountains, the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan is a horrific road through dust and ice in Taliban country.

Afghanistan, South Africa, India

The Karakorum Highway, known as KKH, is a two thousand kilometer long trunk road linking Pakistan with China that threads its way between the cliffs and landslides of the Himalayas. Nanga Parbat in the is one of the world?s highest mountains.

The Karakorum Highway is a two thousand kilometer long trunk road linking Pakistan with China that threads its way between the cliffs and landslides of the Himalayas.

Pakistan, Madagascar, Bangladesh

Skipper's Canyon is a fascinating gorge you can see from Arthur's Point when you're heading for Queenstown, New Zealand. A look out of the window shows just why it's risky: a yawning chasm on the right and steep cliffs on the left!

Skipper's Canyon is a fascinating gorge you can see from Arthur's Point when you're heading for Queenstown, New Zealand