Here are a few more pictures from the next day and a video of me explaining the accident. The last part of the video is the tow truck winching the truck back onto the highway. I still say that pictures and video really don't capture the craziness of this mountain. It was stupidly steep.
Also...when you hear me puffing in the video keep in mind that we're up over 4000 metres. That's above the tree line. That's my excuse anyhow. It was hard going...
The wind noise gets a bit loud near the end as well. I guess the other thing to keep in mind was that we were basically going highway speed when we went off the edge. Yimy had braked a bit, but not much...
The video...
Also...when you hear me puffing in the video keep in mind that we're up over 4000 metres. That's above the tree line. That's my excuse anyhow. It was hard going...
The wind noise gets a bit loud near the end as well. I guess the other thing to keep in mind was that we were basically going highway speed when we went off the edge. Yimy had braked a bit, but not much...
Some of the damage....
Driver's side...
The big pile of rocks in front of the truck.
One of the tow truck guys rappelling down to the truck.
Winching the truck up the hill.
Some llamas down in the valley...
At the top...
One of the police officers.
You can kind of see in this picture why it was so scary.
It dropped right off and we couldn't see
anything that was coming...
Back on the road.
The video...
And now onto other news...
1 comments:
I seriously can't BELIEVE that!!! That video makes it so much more real. Kind of got choked up all over again.
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