Sani Pass, elevation 2876m, is a mountain pass and border point between South Africa and Lesotho. The route up Sani Pass starts at 1544 m, and climbs 1332 vertical metres to an altitude of 2876 m. The road is a steep gravel road with gradients up to 1:3, which can be difficult to drive in bad weather and may be

Khunjerab Pass, elevation 4.880m, is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram Mountains in a strategic position on the border of Pakistan and China. The Khunjerab Pass is the highest paved international border crossing in the world and the highest point on the Karakoram Highway. The roadway across the pass has superseded the unpaved

Gaislachkoglbahn is a high mountain peak, elevation 3.018m, in the Ötztal Alps. It’s one of the highest roads in Europe. The road to the summit is a very challenging, extremely steep and long single-track. It is impassable from October to June. The ground in the upper half is characterized by very rough rocks. This runway is

The Greitspitz, elevation 2,871m, is a mountain peak located on the border between Switzerland and Austria. It’s one of the highest roads of Europe. Located within the Samnaun Alps, the road to the summit is rocky and gravel. It’s a chairlift access trail. The slope is very steep, consists of loose stones and becomes even steeper

The Palinkopf or Paliner Kopf, elevation 2,864m, is a mountain peak and is part of the Samnaun-Ischgl ski area. It’s a chairlift access trail, very steep, consists of loose stones and becomes even steeper and rocky in the upper part. High winds blow here all year long. This trail can be done only during a very narrow time-frame in the

Roßfeldhöhenringstraße (today officially: "Rossfeldpanoramastraße") is a toll road open all year round in the legal form of a federal private road in the Berchtesgaden Alps in the district of Berchtesgadener Land , Bavaria ( Germany ). It leads over the Roßfeld , a northern foothills of the Göll . The Roßfeld is located between the

Viderjoch Pass, elevation of 2.737m, lies on the border of Switzerland and Austria. Road starts in Ischgl, at an elevation of 1.377m. From town centre to Idalpe at 2.318m, road is tarmac. The elevation gains almost 1.000m in the first 7km. The first kilometer is almost exactly 20% all the time but the next kilometers are very

Edelweissspitze is a point served as a sideroad of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. This dead end road is 1.7km long and ends in the Edelweisshütte mountain inn, at an elevation of 2571m above the sea level. The drive is definitely worth it. Athe summit there is a a grand view of 37 3000m peaks and 19 glaciers. The surface of

Oetztal Glacier Road. The 15km-long, toll road, Panoramic Glacier Road, reaches an elevation of 2,830 m above the sea level, ranks among the highest mountain roads in the Eastern Alps and connects village of Sölden with the ski areas of Rettenbach Glacier and Tiefenbach Glacier. The two glaciers are connected by the famous Rosi

Timmelsjoch (Italian: Passo del Rombo), is a high mountain pass at 2474 metres that connects the Ötztal valley in the Austrian state of Tyrol to the Passeier Valley in the Italian province of South Tyrol. It bridges the saddle point between the Jochköpfl (3,141 metres) and Wurmkogl (3,082 metres) peaks to its northeast and