Deadliest Roads

Ladakh, the most northern state of India, situated at 5000 meters altitude, is one of the harshest environments in the world. It is connected to the rest of India by a perilous road that winds through the soaring mountains. This road is one of the highest and most dangerous in the world; here even the slightest mistake can be fatal. Adjay regularly takes this route with his mechanic Ali to deliver tar to the rest of India. They face icy and severely damaged roads, torrential rain, muddy traps and extreme fatigue several days a week for just 160 euros a month. At these altitudes it is difficult to even catch your breath but a few are still here preserving their traditional way of life. The Changpa Nomads live a simple life, always on the move in search of food for their herds of yaks, sheep and goats. Unfortunately their numbers are depleting as younger family member leave the extreme conditions of the mountains to seek their fortune in the towns below. Ladakh is also a very spiritual place with a

With the very first images, the director plunges us into a living hell. Torrents of water, flooded road junctions and villages, a people drowning in torrential rain, overflowing drains. This is Liberia. Every summer the rainy season is one of the heaviest in the world. Within a few days, a deadly rain aggravates the difficulties of a country ruined by a devastating civil war. An avalanche of water wreaks havoc on every dirt road. Villages are cut off from the world. Despite the state of the roads, Fofana, a pick-up truck driver obsessed with money, decides to take penniless passengers through the jungle to the far side of the country. This journey in the face of the natural elements quickly turns into a nightmare and exposes the terrible conditions that Liberians live under. Showing prodigious ingenuity, everyone tries to get by as best he can. The disaster of the floods is a boon for those who help the victims in exchange for a few pennies. The pastors of a church turn the mass into a money-spinning lottery. In this incredible

Guyana is a forgotten and mysterious country. Wedged between Surinam, Venezuela and Brazil, the sole English-speaking country in South America also continues to be one of the poorest and least populated on the continent. Anything can happen in this focal point for adventurers, cowboys and gold prospectors. Outside of Georgetown, the capital on the edge of the sea with the appearance of a colonial town, the rest of the territory resembles a lost world. The Amazon forest covers everything, slashed through here and there by enormous, winding rivers. Beyond the jungle is a vast plain, scorched by the sun in summer and inundated by water in the rainy season. Few will dare to venture into the inner country. And yet a handful of truck drivers take amazing risks to supply the gold mines and rare villages that are there with food and fuel. Aboard their Bedfords, former British Army trucks that have been fixed a thousand times, they must deal with roads full of potholes, cross hostile jungle and brave torrents of mud. Their journeys take them to areas that

In Ethiopia, transport is a daily struggle. Deadly accidents are common, with outdated infrastructure forcing trucks to battle rain, mud, and treacherous roads. The only functioning train, linking Dire Dawa to Djibouti over 310 kilometers, takes more than 10 hours on a good day—and often derails or breaks down. From the scorching Danakil desert to the lush, rainy Kaffa highlands, this episode of Les Routes de l’impossible plunges us into Ethiopia’s most perilous journeys, where survival and determination ride the rails of the world’s most dangerous train.

Landlocked and long closed off from the world, Laos remained isolated for decades under a strict regime. The film travels from south to north through dangerous roads, along the Mekong River and the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a region still marked by one of the heaviest bombing campaigns in history. Above all, it follows the daily lives of ordinary people, traveling merchants, a mahout deep in the jungle, and a teacher in a remote village, who keep this quiet but resilient country moving forward.

In the heart of the Peruvian Andes, extreme drivers defy ancient Inca gods on high-altitude death tracks where one wrong turn means plunging thousands of meters into the void. From truckers risking everything to deliver fragile cargo across crumbling cliffs, to river captains navigating the treacherous, isolated waters of the Amazon, survival is a daily gamble. Explore Peru’s most dangerous routes, extreme mountain passes, and sacred shamanic rituals in a race against nature, mechanical failures, and fatal landslides.

High above the Amazon rainforest, legendary DC-3 vintage planes and extreme pilots navigate the world’s most dangerous air routes. Facing violent tropical storms, improvised dirt runways, severe mechanical breakdowns, and the constant threat of rebel territories, these brave crews are the only lifeline for isolated jungle villages. Step inside the cockpit of Colombia’s ultimate aviation challenge, where every single landing is a desperate gamble against survival!