High-risk truck driving in Pakistan’s mountains

This Al Jazeera documentary follows a Pakistani truck driver along 145 miles of what may be the most dangerous road in the world, the Lowari Pass in the northwest border area of Pakistan and Afghanistan.  A slice of life most Americans wouldn’t otherwise get to see, it is part of a series broadcast in 2011 called Risking It All , about people around the world who risk their lives to earn a living.

Ancient planes, deadly jungle, heroic fliers

A tough way to earn a living

This Al Jazeera documentary shows how Bolivian coca farmers swing on rusty cables between mountain cliffs, above abysses more than 400 feet deep, to earn their livings.  When I see things like this, I feel admiration for the courage and the lengths to which people will go to provide for themselves and their families, I feel gratitude for my own soft life, and I feel a wish to live in a world in which performing daredevil feats was a choice and not a necessity.

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Hat tip to Jack Clontz.