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The mountain road carved through a cliff by hand

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Desperate to connect their isolated village to modern civilization, a small team of untrained farmers spent five agonizing years manually carving an actual road directly through the heart of a solid stone cliff. Using only crude hammers and explosives, they created a magnificent, terrifying tunnel dotted with rugged windows looking down a sheer drop.

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