Mountain Pass Roads
9 roads
Stelvio Pass
The SS38 over the Stelvio between Bormio and Prato allo Stelvio, built by the Austrians from 1820 to 1825 with 48 numbered hairpin...
Karakoram Highway
The KKH from Hasan Abdal to Khunjerab Pass at 4,693 m, the highest paved border crossing on earth, built over 20 years and opened ...
Leh-Manali Highway
The 479 km high altitude road from Manali to Leh crossing Taglang La at 5,328 m among five high passes. Built by the Border Roads ...
Khardung La
The pass road north of Leh on the way to the Nubra valley, signed at 5,602 m though surveys put the true height near 5,359 m. Once...
Vrsic Pass
The 50 hairpin road over the Vrsic in the Julian Alps, built in 1915 with Russian prisoner of war labor for the Isonzo front. An a...
Tizi n Tichka
The pass road between Marrakech and Ouarzazate over the High Atlas at 2,265 m, engineered by the French in the 1930s. Switchbacks ...
Sani Pass
The 4x4 only track from Underberg in KwaZulu Natal up the escarpment to Sani Top at 2,873 m, the highest pub in Africa at the bord...
Grimsel Pass
The pass between the Bernese Oberland and the upper Rhone valley, opened as a carriage road in 1894. The road winds past the damme...
Simplon Pass
The pass between Brig and Domodossola, where Napoleon ordered a military road built from 1801 to 1805 to move artillery into Italy...