Video Title: (Mountain Biking The World - La Paz Bolivia)
Video Duration: 2:38
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a tripadvisor™ tripwow video of a travel blog to la paz, bolivia by travelpod blogger jeffsadventures. see this tripwow and more at tripwotripadvisor mountain biking the world the world's most dangerous road, or as bolivians more affectionately refer to it, death road, was named in 1995 by the inter-american development bank. their simple measurement deaths per mile this is long before anyone thought tourists would pay to hurl themselves kamikaze style down the twisty, dirt road that has no safety barriers and drop offs in some areas as much as 3000 feet when a vehicle or mountain biker find their way off the edge, death is pretty much inevitable. on average, 26 vehicles per yearone every two weeks fall off the single-lane road killing between 100 and 200 people per year. in july 1983, carlos pizarroso inde drove his bus over the edge, killing more than 100 pengers in bolivia's worst ever road accident...and that was just one incident that year depending on who you ask, 7 or 8 mountain bikers have plummeted to their death since 2003 for reasons such as failing to negotiate one of the road's 200-plus turns, being bumped off the edge by a ping vehicle, or even as simply as losing concentration and stepping backwards off the cliff trying to avoid trafficwe were required to dismount the bikes for ping vehicles. the half-way point is marked by a monument donated by the israeli government to commemorate the site where an israeli girl plunged to her ltbgt...lt bgt
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