"Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez" (apidaonline)
11/11/2014 at 08:56 • Filed to: NOPE
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"Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez" (apidaonline)
11/11/2014 at 08:56 • Filed to: NOPE | 8
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Here's my take on ridiculously dangerous mountain passes: If you're not Frodo trying to take a ring into Mordor and you are simply a tourist that greatly underestimates the likelihood of a landslide, then you probably should stay home.
This video comes from an unbelievably fearless man named Mick Fowler, who took it upon himself to team up with a few friends and tour a Himalayan road that included a 2,000 foot drop a few feet away from the tour van's likely bald and badly patched front tires.
I can't fault them for laughing about the whole thing, though I'll just chalk that up to the altitude screwing with their oxygen supply.
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Leon711
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 09:00 |
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SO DRUNK!
RazoE
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 09:28 |
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I clenched up when I saw the waterfall. NOPE NOPE NOPE.
banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 11:19 |
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I'm fine with never doing this. Also fine with not going to a budget skydiving company and never surfing in Australia or northern California at peak shark season. ..or just ever. I can enjoy similar views in the American rockies with guardrails and road certified cars and drivers
Gonemad
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:03 |
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There is a story about a crazy Vietnamese (South Korean? Asian, ok?) that was dropped atop a mountain with bulldozer by a skycrane and opened a road like this, but I can't find it.
The chopper would just regularly dump fuel drums and hot meals for him until he carved a road back to civilization. Even then, not as scary as this road.
The Ghost of ¯\_()_/¯ AKA BabySteps
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:12 |
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Heavy Petting Zoo
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:13 |
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There needs to be a Himalayan rally on that road.
AbelfromBoston
> Leon711
11/11/2014 at 20:16 |
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Nah you don't need alcohol to do crazy @#$ at that altitude when you are deprived of oxygen.
bob and john
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:17 |
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> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:19 |
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Maxxuman
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:19 |
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Who knew Howie Mandel could do such a convincing scouser accent?
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Maxxuman
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:23 |
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I must confess, I thought my drives up the Karakoram Highway (KKH) in Pakistan 20 years ago included some pretty hairy sections but this looks even worse.
Vin
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:28 |
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Fuck every second of that. Never in life.
guppysb
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:41 |
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You know the worst part of that area/region/road? Trying going up in Himachal Pradesh in a public bus, with oncoming traffic, with a make-belief suspension. I've never been that scared in my entire life.
grahamrh808
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:43 |
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It'd be one thing to drive the road in a jeep or some sort of capable off road machine...but double terrifying points for doing it in some sort of transport van!
True
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 20:59 |
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Um.....I think I'll walk.
kahpentah
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 21:00 |
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I would run, like Afroduck.
gearboxtrouble
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 21:03 |
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I really hope that road is one way.
Gavin S.
> bob and john
11/11/2014 at 21:03 |
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I must know the story of the yes-no 8 switches gif. What in the Sam Hill is going on there?
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bob and john
> Gavin S.
11/11/2014 at 21:08 |
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its a pointless machine that just turns off the switches. thats literally all it does.
Mike Villa
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 21:12 |
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Equana
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 21:16 |
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I can't clench my ass enough to ride on that road, never, ever, ever... No
El-Verde
> Mike Villa
11/11/2014 at 21:16 |
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I watched this movie a week ago. For approximately the 506th time. I am an adult male. Thank you.
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Gavin S.
> bob and john
11/11/2014 at 21:17 |
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Well, it's awesome at it!
Kevin Barrett
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 21:17 |
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I'll be honest. Before I clicked through, I thought this guy was sticking his head out of a de Havilland Beaver.
XJguy
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 21:26 |
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Um no no no no no.....
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 21:35 |
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I'm not good at math, but how would one express Nope to the nth degree of Nope?
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Mike Villa
> El-Verde
11/11/2014 at 21:50 |
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You and me both.
Spoon II
> bob and john
11/11/2014 at 21:51 |
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Sweet, I've always wanted to make one of those!
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Sooke
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 21:54 |
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If you want to get your thrills closer to home, check out Skyline Drive in Colorado, where the terrain drops off dangerously on BOTH sides of the road.
My review at Trip Advisor:
http://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowUserReview…
this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 22:01 |
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It's all fun and games until...
A: you get a flat on the left side of the car, or...
B: the road is blocked and you have to turn around.
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the nope, the whole nope, and nothing but the nope.gif
Vincent Davidson
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 22:14 |
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Clay_T
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 22:23 |
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Lovely day today.
I believe I'll just get out and walk...
Das Shtig
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 23:21 |
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Interesting. I'm surprised by the comments. I think I'd do it, just not in that particular vehicle. I'd go with a fully optimized for the job Jeep or something similar. And keep the windows down or doors off on the right side of the vehicle so I we could jump out in the correct direction if shit hits the fan.
Frankenbike666
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
11/11/2014 at 23:40 |
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B: the road is blocked, and you have to back up all the way to where you just came from.
BillyBob
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/11/2014 at 23:43 |
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Closest thing I've done... SW of Ouray, CO
matt.mara
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 01:04 |
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And here I thought my sphincter couldn't shut any harder after seeing the TG boys on that mountain road in the Bolivia special.
I was wrong.
N.Guise
> bob and john
11/12/2014 at 02:07 |
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N.Guise
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 02:07 |
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Only if i'm driving. in a convertible, and i've got a chute.
Harbir
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 02:27 |
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IF that is not the Killar to Kishtwar road in northern India, then its EXACTLY like it. There is better driving here than anything in the US (except for a few like this particular road). Only rule is, you need a vehicle thats more like a targa/rally carthan a closed circuit racer in its suspension, wheel, tire set up. Mountain roads that go for days and days without any yellow lines, cops, speed limits, or any rules other than "try not to kill someone". You should try it out.
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jimboski
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 08:51 |
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There's something about a thin margin of error and the other side of that line meaning certain death that makes the whole thing a little less scary.
Put me on the roof of my house and I'm terrified to fall. Jump out of an airplane? Yeah, fun because it's laughable how dead I'll be if something goes amiss.
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VashVashVash
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 09:29 |
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Has anyone done the alpine loop in CO? It's not quiet as extreme, but it is comparable.
tapzz
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 09:43 |
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Good old Mercedes T1 van.
I thought that the van in the video would be a vehicle that started it's career shuttling people and stuff around European streets anywhere between 40 and 20 years ago, and, upon its kind's customary refusal to die, got exported. Not so: the T1 is still in production in India as the Tempo Traveller. So it could be newish...
William Sean McFly
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 09:50 |
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I'm a born and bred Midwestern urbanite. On my first trip to the Rockies, I took my Ford Focus up Mt. Evans, the highest paved road in North America. It was the middle of July, and 90 degrees in Denver. I was totally unprepared for what I was in for, not only in terms of temperature change, but the altitude effect and the shear drop-offs. No guard rails 14,000 feet high.
Not my video, but this is what it's like:
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Bubba68CS
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 09:55 |
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Oh com'on...there's PLENTY of room...and its got 4 wheels!
Now THIS...THIS is butt clenchingly terrifying:
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wecangetitoutoverthebay
> Heavy Petting Zoo
11/12/2014 at 10:06 |
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Now this is what the plot of Death Race *should* have been.
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SocialOracle
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 10:20 |
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Your asshole couldn't get any tighter if it had a drawstring in it.
mtdrift
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 10:32 |
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What else can you do but laugh? Might as well plunge to your deaths happy.
Dest
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 10:42 |
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Gotta wonder if they couldn't build an alternate route down through the valley.
CarCrazy
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 11:03 |
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As a kid growing up in India in the 90s, my parents and I used to go to the himalayan towns and villages for summer vacations. We used to encounter many such roads back then and our vehicle of choice almost always used to be a "Maruti Suzuki Omni" van. It was absolutely scary going on those narrow mountainside roads in Manali, Rohtang pass and such in that thing! Adventurous!
F50F60
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 11:45 |
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Yeah I could do this....My butt cheeks would be scrapping on the canyon walls...
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plaerzen
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 12:19 |
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More like 600 feet.
ArcticKid
> bob and john
11/12/2014 at 12:26 |
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I would exit the vehicle, and walk the road with my back against the wall the entire way.
minardi
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 13:29 |
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I would trust the guy walking, he knows. So I would also walk.
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VehiculusIgnorantus
> Gavin S.
11/12/2014 at 16:02 |
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Useless box on steroids. DIY project by some dude. Look for useless box on ThinkGeek if you are still blank.
puppyknuckles
> banjo cat ghost of oppo past
11/12/2014 at 16:34 |
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Fuck. That.
(Edit: meant for OP).
Fuck heights and fuck gravel
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Tony Whack Jr
> Freddy "Tavarish" Hernandez
11/12/2014 at 16:35 |
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"There's a waterfall up ahead dropping onto the road. Look, up there." I'm sorry, my eyes were locked onto death drop located to the immediate left of the vehicle. Driver's sack must be bigger than the damn mountain they're driving on.