The rocky section of the old road to Krasnaya Polyana of Sochi.

Enters in top-10 according to Top Gear" - the Most dangerous roads in the world." The gorge is sawn through by the Mzymta River in east part of Ridge Akhtsu. Through the gorge in 1897-1899 on narrow eaves the highway was laid. Gorge length about 3 km, depth is 850 m, width on a bottom of 20-30 m. The road goes on the stone eaves which are cut down on a steep board of the gorge at average height - 100 m. On the one hand a limestone wall, with another - an abyss. Work of builders who in 1897 — 1899 laid the highway here is heavy and was dangerous. The road was constructed by 30000 people. Nobody knows, the number of the dead on construction of this road. Remind two crowbars of it that stick out of a rock crevice highly over the road, from a ledge of a crevice two builders fell and died. On the thirty fourth kilometer of the road there is the bottleneck of the gorge. The huge rock separated from the main massif hung over the river. In this place there was a powerful collapse in January, 1968. The broken blocks of limestone with a total amount about 25 thousand m3 blocked the bed of the river a dam 25 m long and 20 m high and filled up the road running on the gorge. River water within several hours filled the formed bathtub. The formed lake in February, 1968 had length of 1700 m. Within the gorge width of the lake was 25-30 m, and depth to 18 m. Before the gorge, the lake extended up to 280 m, depth decreased up to 2-4 m. The big mass of water and an unstable condition of the dam keeping it threatened the settlements located below on a current and the airport of Sochi with break and formation of a destructive mudflow. Therefore works on water descent were carried out, and the lake disappeared. The report of incidents after the journey, during her operation, reminded the report from theater of military actions - http://www.vremya.ru/2002/147/4/26022... The road is closed in 2005. But continues to collect the deadly harvest. The tourists thrill-seekers who got here for the sake of perish it is unreal beautiful photos. http://maks-portal.ru/proisshestviya-...