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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.
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.
The number of migrant children crossing the jungle between Colombia and Panama is up by 40%, Unicef says.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll.It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture, planning, construction, design, and more.
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 ...
The 575-page Critical Incident Review of the botched law enforcement response to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting said the victims “experienced unimaginable horror” and “witnessed ...
Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, a report said Wednesday, the latest trend in ...
World's Most Dangerous Roads is a British TV series in which two celebrities are filmed as they journey by 4×4 vehicle along roads considered among the world's most dangerous. The show was initially broadcast on BBC Two from 2011 to 2013, [ 1 ] and narrated by actor Adrian Dunbar .