A very nice movie produced by Top Gear.
The road is in Romania and his name is Transfagarasan. The 91 km road have.
Transfagarasan was built between 1970 and 1974. A brief presentation with numbers might be difficult to follow, but for those who have the patience to read it is worth saying that about 3 million tones of hard rocks were dislocated, 830 transverse 290 000 works and cubic meters of masonry were made for those building 1992 kilometers of road. For building the Capra - Bale Tunnel There were excavated over 41,000 cubic meters of rocks. There were also used 20 tones of dynamite, 3573 tones of cement, 89 tones of steel concrete, 24 000 of anchors, 129 tones of brazed nets, 14 200 square meters of encasements, 1750 meters of concrete tubes, 4100 meters of Pipes , 50 tones of the metal composites, 6900 cubic meters of grit, 6000 cubic meters of gravel, 3000 tones of crushed rocks and lighting 740 lamps.
A story that has been spreading frá mouth to mouth refers to a monk named Nectarie. After the construction of the Transfagarasan road, he climbed it by his car, a Trabant, up to Capri, where he was caught by an avalanche. He left the car at Capra, and he threw himself on the snow, being carried by the "wave". It is said that he remained alive, while his car was found after 6 months, when the snow melt away.
I hpe you like it.
Cristian