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The most dangerous road in the world isn’t far from our own shores, with New Zealand’s Skippers Canyon Road taking out the title.
The passage, located in the country’s south-west, not far from Queenstown, was hand-carved by miners in the late 1800s, and the conditions are so tricky that rental car companies won’t allow their vehicles onto it, as their insurance isn’t honoured there.
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It runs for about 22 kilometres, is unpaved, and mostly single-laned, and features the famous (or infamous) Skippers Bridge – an almost-100-metre crossing that only one vehicle is allowed on at any one time.
Even if you haven’t heard of the treacherous road, you may have seen it – or at least the canyon is goes through – before, as it was one of the locations used for filming Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
