Midway through Bolivia, where the Amazon and the Andes meet, is a notoriously beautiful and treacherous path. Officially known as North Yungas Road but more infamously as “The Death Road,” this track ...

It's 12 feet wide, at best, and descends nearly 12,000 feet in just over 40 miles, winding through the Amazon rainforest with a lack of guardrails and an even more significant absence of visibility ...

Imagine embarking on an exhilarating bike ride where survival is uncertain. If such an endeavor sounds like the thrill you're ...

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia´s "Death Road" might seem an odd place for a septuagenarian grandmother on two wheels. The world´s most dangerous road spirals skyward nearly 11,000 feet, from the country´s ...

It may sometimes feel perilous driving to work, especially if you have to cross some of the scariest roads in the United States, like Monarch Pass in Colorado or the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New ...

According to the U.S. State Department, the political and social situation in Bolivia remains uncertain since the resignation of President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and the violence that accompanied ...

[This story originally appeared in the December 2006 issue of MotorTrend.] Statistically speaking, the world’s most dangerous road is a 40-mile-long gravel ledge hacked into a Bolivian mountainside in ...

Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep with congratulations to Mirtha Munoz. Years ago, she co-founded a terrifying bike race. The Skyrace has riders in Bolivia climbing 11,000 feet in the mountains. People ...

Watch as a biker attempts to base jump off Bolivia’s famous Death Road and fails badly. Don’t worry, he survived, but it was really painful: “injuries included ...