VIDJOT.com

photo credit: Phillie Casablanca

Over the past couple of years I have noticed a number of articles about the Yungas road in Bolivia commonly known as “the world’s most dangerous road” (A.K.A. “the road of death”) because over 100 people die while traveling the road every year. Between La Paz and Coroico, located in the Bolivian Andes, a 70 km (40 mile) stretch of this road ranges from a height of 4,700 m (15,400 ft) down to 1,100 m (3,600 ft); a drop of 3,600 m (11,800 ft). In addition to the articles I have read, I have also found a good number of videos taken by both drivers and mountain bikers who have traveled the road.

The road appears to be very popular with mountain bikers who hire companies to guide them on a trip down the road. The majority of videos that I found were taken by these mountain bikers. My favorite of these shows a group of bikers riding just mere feet from the edge of a cliff. You have to have a lot of confidence in your biking skills to try this.

Another video I found provides an example of the view you get from a vehicle traveling down the road.

I also found this informative video, provided by the National Geographic Channel

Finally, after many years of use and hundreds of deaths, the road has been replaced by a much safer paved road, leaving only thrill-seeking mountain bikers who are willing to risk the trip.

Please check out the links below which include some great images.

JT

Links:

• YouTube - Death Road from Nafty111
• Nafty111’s YouTube page
• YouTube - The World’s Most Dangerous Road from emandhame
• emandhame’s YouTube page
• YouTube - Most Dangerous Roads from the National Geographic Channel
• National Geographic’s YouTube page
• BBC News - The World’s Most Dangerous Road
• Dark Roasted Blend - The Most Dangerous Roads in the World
• PoetryMine.com - Cycling the World’s Most Dangerous Road
• Perils Unknown - The Most Dangerous Road in the World

I recently found this article about the Dharma stations on Lost. The article includes a map of the island and also has some good clips from the show. The last video though (located just above the description for the Orchid station) did not actually appear on the show and it does contain a spoiler. I usually try to avoid spoilers but I couldn’t resist watching it.

The map appears to show the Hydra station in the water off the southeast coast of the island. The caption below the map in the article states that the Hydra station is actually most likely to instead be the Looking Glass station. This makes sense since we now know that the Looking Glass station is underwater and the Hydra station is on a smaller nearby island. However, this map was borrowed from the Lost Island Map web site which also has a map of the island without all the stations labeled and that map shows that the Hydra station is located on a small island which we could not see on the other map due to the small size of the island. Therefore the caption is incorrect and it appears that we are uncertain about the location of the Looking Glass station.

JT

Links:

• A Visual Tour of Dharma Initiative Stations: 7 Mysterious ‘Abandonments’ of the ‘Lost’ Island
• Lost Island Map by LostySmurf (3.1)
• Lost Island Map - main page
• Strange Maps: A Map of the Island in ‘Lost’
• Lostpedia – Fan Maps
• Lostpedia – Dharma Initiative
• Lost Wikia – The Dharma Initiative

The final episode for season 3 of Lost will be on Wednesday at 9:00 EST. In my last post I thought it would be at 8:00 but all sources now say that it will be at 9:00 EST.

JT

The premiere episode of season 4 of Lost will be shown on ABC on Thursday January 31st. At 8:00 pm EST (5:00 pm PST) there will be clip show followed by an episode entitled “The Beginning of the End”. I have been looking forward to this episode for a long time and I can’t wait to see it.

The final episode of season 3 will be shown on ABC on Wednesday January 30th. I believe the episode starts at 8:00 pm EST but one source (my Tivo schedule) lists it at 9:00 pm.

JT