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Sebastian Snow crossed the Gap with Wade Davis in 1975 as part of his unbroken walk from Tierra del Fuego to Costa Rica. The trip is documented in his 1976 book The Rucksack Man and in Wade Davis's 1996 book One River. In 1981, George Meegan crossed the gap on a similar journey. He too started in Tierra del Fuego and eventually ended in Alaska.
Last year, nearly 250,000 people crossed the Darien Gap, nearly double the 133,000 who crossed in 2021, and a new record. That increase was driven largely by Venezuelans, who accounted for some 60 ...
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The investigation team also found that the backup ADI (stand-by) was probably available to the pilots during the intermittent failure of the main instruments systems (the post-impact damage of the stand-by indicator showed that it was operating properly up to impact with the ground), but due to an ineffective cross-checking procedure done by ...
A bus attempted to cross a closed level crossing and was sliced in half by a train, killing 49. July 10 – Hong Kong – Tuen Mun Road bus accident. A bus plunged off a bridge following a collision with a lorry, killing 21. [24] July 16 – United States – Santa Monica Farmers Market crash. An elderly man drove his car into another car and ...
A record 520,000 migrants crossed the treacherous jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap in 2023, more than double the number reported the year before, according to government ...
The Yungas Road, popularly known as The Death Road, is a 64-kilometre (40 mi) long cycle route linking the city of La Paz with the Yungas region of Bolivia. It was conceived in the 1930s by the Bolivian government to connect the capital city of La Paz with the Amazon Rainforest in the north part of the country.
The deadliest modern crowd crush incidents have both occurred during the Hajj pilgrimage, with the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy claiming 1,426 lives and the 2015 Mina stampede claiming 2,400. [1] (Although the term "stampede" is used in some media outlets, the scientific consensus is that true stampedes involving humans are extremely rare. [1])