The fog rolled in before we'd even left La Cumbre, curling around the bikes stacked against the van like it was trying to talk us out of it. We were 4,650 metres up, the air thin enough that pulling on my gloves left me slightly out of breath, and somewhere below us, 61km of gravel, cliff edge and reputation was waiting. Bolivia's Yungas Road didn't earn the nickname "El Camino de la Muerte" for nothing. Carved through the Andes in the 1930s by … [Read more...]
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Stephen is a travel writer and photographer behind Facts & Footsteps, with 107 countries visited and counting. He specialises in off-the-beaten-track destinations, with a particular focus on Bolivia and South America. When he's not cycling down the world's most dangerous roads, he's usually planning his next adventure.