BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 03:11:00
Correspondent lyse doucet has travelled to the salang in the hindu kush region to see how bad things are. a winter wonderland of aching beauty, but brutal. we are travelling through the masses of the hindu kush, through the world's second—highest road tunnel, the salang tunnel. a place of legend. it's an engineering wonder, but a death trap. especially in winter, in avalanches and accidents. the only highway rescue at this spot is sakhi mohammed, selling chains for tyres in the coldest winter in a decade. translation: it gets so cold, you cannot see the road. - you can't walk, and the heater...