El Camino de la Muerte means ‘death road’. It sees around 100 fatalities per year. Only 43 miles long, the muddy Bolivian thoroughfare plummets over 975 metres in a relentless series of switchbacks with sheer vertical drops at every turn – yet visitors to the road, including around 250 mountain bikers a day during the peak season, insist the astounding mountain scenery mitigates the alarming risks of traversing it
Photograph: Matt Harvey
