In the world's highest mountains
are roads only the best can survive...
- There is no road in the U.S.
that compares to anything here.
Where the road averages a death
every 4 1/2 minutes.
And three truckers
are risking everything...
- BLEEP splinters of wood poke you like a pincushion.
In trucks built on wood frames.
Knock on a wooden truck.
Hopefully it ain't the wooden casket.
Over the past seven weeks,
the truckers have experienced tragedy...
He's dead?
Victory...
You're very, very welcome.
And camaraderie.
Whose ass we need to kick?
Me and Rick are a team.
You know, he gets out, I get out.
- Hey, Rick, your is great.
You got to work together
to get out of this and get home safe.
Now the roads...
- I don't want to get too close to this shoulder.
And weather are deteriorating.
- This whole hillside's gonna come down.
And the drivers
are taking matters into their own hands.
- Now he can come up here and pick his gravel up.
- No, no, it was right... - I'm talking.
It's just that...
- Hey, Tashi, I got an idea. - Yeah?
- I'm still giving you the day off.
Three truckers...
- I'm leaving India alive, not in a casket.
Two months...
Big boulder over there.
I can't see it!
- Go! Go! Go! Go!
A race at the top of the world.
Today's toughest drivers
take on history's deadliest roads.
Go fast. Go fast. Go fast.
I am going fast.
- So many cars behind us, though.
In the heart of the Himalayas,
a local truck is bearing down
on North American driver Lisa Kelly.
And Lisa's spotter Tashi
doesn't want to let it pass.
Doesn't make any sense.
- You want me to let him go by or not?
- What do you want me to do, drive really, really super fast?
Let him stop.
They're stopping. They're stopping.
Let him stop.
Go on through. - Just go.
Why don't you let the cars go, then?
Holy crap.
- You're the one who told me not to let him go.
Tashi, I didn't ask you to get out and argue.
- Let's go. Let's not sit here and argue.
With a load of cement waiting for pickup,
Lisa can't afford any more delays.
- That's what I was doing. I was giving them way.
Huh?
No, you drive.
- Then how about you let me drive?
Just a few miles south is Alabama trucker Dave Redmon.
Oh, lookee here.
Accidente.
The guy right here looks like his passing technique
didn't work this morning.
He ain't gonna be passing nobody in that Bolero for a while.
What were the statistics here?
Every four minutes, somebody is killed
in this country in a car accident?
We're going down here to "Patikri".
I think that's how you pronounce it.
Is that right? "Patikri"?
- Yes. - "Patikri".
Is that right?
"Patikri"?
Pat... I don't even know what the BLEEP I'm talking about.
Here we are, hopefully.
Don't know where we're getting any stones here.
- Yeah, I see that. It looks narrow, don't it?
Man, this is a mess here.
Right, right.
Straight. Left, left, left.
Right, right, right, right,
right, right, right, right,
right, right, right, right.
Damn.
Help, damn it.
Right, right, right here.
Right, right.
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
There's not enough room.
- Yeah, we're gonna have to back up.
Yeah.
But I'm gonna back up through this.
Nope, I ain't gonna do that.
Yep.
Ah!
What the hell?
I can't see it.
All right, we're off that.
We rubbed on this rock wall here.
There we go.
We good over there now?
All right, yeah, we got it.
- That's the skinniest road we've been on.
I'm gonna go look at the scratch I put on the side.
More scratches.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's what I hit,
right there, a little scratch.
We done good if that's all we did was scratch it.
All right, tell him to get us loaded so we can go.
Okay.
They want us to take 20 tons up?
No, no, no, no, no.
Nine or less.
- Okay. - Okay.
This truck ain't equipped to haul that weight.
We'll bust the truck in half before we get there.
I mean, nine tons has got it maxed out.
20 tons is ridiculous.
No more than nine tons.
Tell him if he sneaks on more,
we'll come back and make him unload it, okay?
You've got to take control here.
There's no scales, there's no laws,
and, you know, that probably leads
to a lot of deaths up here, you know?
I'm not here to break somebody's record and haul 30 tons.
You know, I'm here to go home.
Stop.
That's enough.
No more.
Let's get a-movin'.
Dave's hauling the gravel
from Manali over the Rohtang Pass
to the mountain outpost of Keylong
for construction projects in a town
that's been cut off all winter.
- Yeah, we just got to navigate through this little town here
and then on to the Rohtang Pass.
A few miles away,
Rick's truck is arriving to pick up nine tons of cement.
But Rick's back at the hotel,
resting up for a run over the Rohtang Pass.
- Well, right now, I don't even want
to leave my BLEEP room, but...
My body's shutting down.
The muscle aches.
Can't sleep 'cause my body's sore.
I don't want to go to sleep, 'cause I don't trust myself.
I might BLEEP the bed.
And all last night,
I must have been up 15, 20 times, BLEEP.
I didn't think a body could hold that much BLEEP.
We're booked in for loads that have to go,
and I got to keep going no matter what.
Okay.
Back to the Rohtang Pass.
Just north of Manali, Dave's climbing toward the pass.
Too much weight.
More than nine tons.
Yes.
- I know what nine tons feels like.
It's all I've hauled since I've been here.
I mean, it's everything I can do
just to go down a relatively smooth highway.
It really pisses me off that they...
you know, they bullBLEEP me, basically.
I'll stop somewhere and shovel this BLEEP off
on the side of the road.
They obviously didn't take me very seriously.
If I don't dump this,
I'm not gonna be able to make it up the pass.
On an ancient Himalayan trading route,
Alabama trucker Dave Redmon's overloaded.
This is ridiculous.
And he's not happy about it.
That's second gear.
That's all I can do, right there.
If I don't dump this,
I'm not gonna be able to make it up the pass.
That's it, right here.
I'm gonna open that tailgate
and take some of this BLEEP off.
Where is the bar?
That big, long bar?
I need the bar.
Language barrier bullBLEEP.
The bar.
Just like that.
I'm out of breath.
They really BLEEP us when they loaded this.
They just thought they could pull one over on me.
I thought driving was tough.
All right, see if we can get this tailgate shut.
If that truck would have been ten feet deep,
he'd have just loaded it up and said it was nine tons.
So, you know, I knew the game, you know,
so now he can come up here and pick his gravel up.
All right, let's go.
Four miles to the south in Manali,
Lisa Kelly's picking up a load of cement.
Here goes nothing.
Tashi, are you telling him about how many we're taking?
Oh.
- Okay. I think we had 160 last time, and it was too heavy.
So...
- 150. - How about less?
No, no, no, less, less.
- I just... we were on a hill, and I couldn't get going.
- No problem. - It was too heavy.
We're too heavy, dude.
BLEEP!
I need help.
Yeah, that's too much.
I don't feel safe driving that heavy.
I just don't.
It's a new... it's a new...
Well, that's...
This truck is not moving
till at least 30 to 40 bags come off.
I'm not stupid, like everyone keeps thinking I am,
and I have to reprove myself everywhere I go,
so I'm just saying, this is my limit.
And it's just... it's like,
"She doesn't know what she's talking about.
We'll fool her. She won't know the difference".
I'm not as blonde as... my hair is dyed, okay?
Unfortunately, today I learned that I can't trust Tashi.
Ahead of Lisa and Dave...
Maverick trucker Rick Yemm's
fighting through sickness...
To get his load over the Rohtang Pass.
I've been really going down.
How about you drive and not worry about honking?
But reinforcements aren't far behind.
Oh, we gainin' right on Rick.
Got eyes on you now.
BLEEP.
Gonna have a damn crash right here.
These people won't give us an inch.
I mean, they're just absolutely obnoxious about it.
Whoo, doggy.
Damn it, man.
Rick, if you'd have seen what hung over the side
when you went around that left curve,
you'd BLEEP right now.
The outside tire was completely off the road,
and half of the inside one was just barely hanging on.
That was a close one.
- All it would have taken was just another couple of inches,
and boop!
It would have flopped right over the side.
There's just a game of inches.
Sometimes you got 'em, and sometimes you don't.
Back in Manali,
Lisa's still trying to get out of town.
Well, the thing is...
is, I'm gonna wait.
I'm gonna wait.
Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.
Go. Go. Go.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Keep left. Keep left. Keep left.
Slow, slow, slow.
Hurry, slow, hurry, slow.
Go, fast, slow. Oh, my gosh.
Cram yourself in there.
Jam.
Go.
What? You told me to go.
Oh, BLEEP. - Oh!
Oh, I really broke it off.
Sorry!
What do we do?
- Yeah, we're jammed, dude. You told me to go.
In the mountain city of Manali...
Slow, go, fast, slow.
Oh, my gosh.
What? You told me to go.
Lisa Kelly's stuck.
- Oh, BLEEP. - Oh!
- Yeah, we're jammed, dude. You told me to go.
- No, no, don't. Don't get out.
Please don't get out.
I don't want to fight.
I should be able to go forward and get off this bridge, right?
BLEEP Tashi. BLEEP Tashi.
I was just fine to sit there and wait.
Then it looked clear, and I went,
and the guy went anyway, and he lost his mirror over it,
so I don't know what to tell you.
I had my lights on, so...
Lisa reached the bridge first
and hit her headlights, giving her the right-of-way.
Try something.
Oh, no, no, no.
I turned my lights on, and the bridge was empty,
and you came anyway.
You were very fast, no?
- No, no, no, no, very slow, very slow.
And you guys came anyway.
And you got next to me.
So I would say, I'm sorry,
I give you $1,000, but it's your fault.
- It cost more than $1,000, ma'am.
- Well, maybe you scratched my truck.
Can I have $1,000 for scratching my truck?
- Oh, let's... let's go to the police station
and take care of this.
I offered it, and I don't even think
I need to give it to you, so... 'cause it was your fault.
Am I getting the hang of this Indian stuff or what?
Very sorry.
- Okay, never mind. Let's go.
- You don't get your money, then.
After six weeks in India,
Lisa's getting the hang of it.
- See, he was trying to rip off a foreigner, huh?
Further up the road...
- I'm sick. I don't want to die.
Rick and Dave have summited
the 13,000-foot Rohtang Pass
and are descending the north face.
Yeah, I seen that.
All you can do is just drive.
Try and get ahead of it
and get down to some better elevation
so when it does hit, we're better prepared.
As the weather loosens the mountain,
the chances of getting caught in a landslide skyrocket.
Now it's a race against Mother Nature.
- Well, we're just past the summit of Rohtang Pass,
and we're headed down the back side of it.
This is the worst stretch of road
from Manali to Keylong.
It's just brutal.
For centuries,
these treacherous mountain passes
were thought to protect the country
from invading forces
because of the dangers they pose,
but the strategy backfired
in the 1999 Kargil War with Pakistan,
when Indian military vehicles struggled on their own roads.
- Last time we came up, we got caught in a landslide.
Oh, BLEEP.
Hey, you got a big stone in your left duals,
big one.
What's that?
- You got a big BLEEP stone in your left duals.
It actually looks like it's got the wheels bent or something.
That's a monster.
Just that BLEEP rubbing on them duals like that,
it'll grind a hole in the side in about ten BLEEP kilometers
and blow both tires out.
- God, everything's a BLEEP effort right now.
Get you... get you a chunk.
You got a lot to spare.
What happens is, he's gonna pull forward.
It's gonna tighten the rope and pull it right out.
All ready, boss?
Yeah, go ahead.
Whoa.
Broke the rope.
That's a stuck rock, buddy.
We got to do it again.
Look at that rope. All right.
Go ahead.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You know what we're gonna do?
Jam the bar up in here and let it lay out here.
Catching up, just within radio range,
is Lisa Kelly.
What's going on?
Yeah.
- You didn't try the rope trick?
As Lisa already discovered,
using a metal bar can end in disaster.
- Yeah, we busted two pieces of rope.
It's a big rock.
All right, watch your fingers.
Now, Rick, back up slow.
Back up slow.
Slow, slow, slow.
Come on back.
Little more. Little more.
It's...
Little more. It's almost out.
Come on. Come on. Come on.
It's out. It's out. Good enough.
All right, we got it. We got it.
Sweet.
Hey, what's going?
We got it out with the bar.
That's the only way it would have come out.
That boulder was that big around.
It was jammed almost to the wheels.
And we broke two pieces of rope.
We mangled his bumper.
All right, we're ready.
Let's go.
With Rick's tire fixed,
the three North American drivers
are now descending the north face together.
What's going on up here?
What's going on up there, Lisa?
Another rockslide?
- This whole hillside is gonna come down.
Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.
Very fast, very fast. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.
- Uh-oh, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to make it.
- Out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out.
- Looks like the road's about to give out at any second here.
That's a tight one.
We got us a rockslide.
You know, all these big rocks over here to our right.
We just don't have any room right here.
Man.
That's a long fall.
Got it?
Okay, this side okay.
Oh!
There's a guy stuck in the mud down here.
No, no.
Please, Lisa.
To get out of the deep mud.
What the hell?
Why did she stop?
- I got Tashi yelling at me again, of course.
'Cause I'm gonna get stuck.
Every minute they wait,
the truckers risk being crushed by falling rocks
or the roadway collapsing beneath them.
- That's the worst place in the damn world
to have to move to the left, right on that ledge.
Damn it!
Kind of freakin' out here.
There's not enough room.
Holy crap.
BLEEP it, I'm going.
Big boulder over there.
Watch it!
Where the hell is it?
I can't see it.
Go. Go. Go.
It's off!
On a storm-battered Himalayan road...
Kind of freakin' out here.
Truckers Lisa, Rick, and Dave
are stuck in the mud in a landslide zone.
Holy crap.
BLEEP it, I'm going.
Big boulder over there.
Watch it!
Where the hell is it?
I can't see it.
Go. Go. Go.
It's off!
Holy BLEEP!
Oh, that was close.
I'm sick of this BLEEP.
Oh, it's so sketchy.
- I don't want to get too close to the shoulder.
I don't want the shoulder to give away.
This BLEEP is slippery.
Get out of my way.
- Oh, Rick will make it. I know he will.
- Get out of the way. Are you retarded?
Come on through, Dave.
Yeah.
Get out of my way!
- Okay. - Got it?
BLEEP me!
That was too close.
We made it.
Teamwork. I love it.
- I think I pooped a little bit.
I was scared.
Hey, we made it.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah!
Call us the three amigos.
The North American convoy
survived the north face of the Rohtang Pass.
See you later, guys.
But now they're splitting up
and heading toward separate drop-off locations.
Okay, 10-4.
Yeah, be safe.
Ah, I'm just about at the unload place here.
Can't wait for this day to be over.
It's BLEEP killing me.
Get this unloaded as quick as I can so I can go to bed.
Across town...
How you doing?
All right?
They overloaded us.
Dave's explaining his light load.
When we picked this up,
we couldn't even get up the road.
It was too heavy.
If I don't dump this,
I'm not gonna be able to make it up the pass.
Now he can come up here and pick his gravel up.
- This is probably about 12 tons.
Yeah.
He was actually okay with it.
You know, he was 100% with me.
You know, he totally agreed that it was too much weight,
and he was glad to get what we brought him.
Even dumping off part of the load
on the side of the road, you know,
he still got more than he paid for.
When you're putting double the weight
on a truck that's not designed to haul it,
it could potentially kill somebody,
and I'm just not gonna do it.
It's just not gonna happen.
So now we're just gonna head back to Manali
and see what we're gonna do from there.
Now Lisa's also answering for a light load.
- Are you? Okay.
This truck is not moving
till at least 30 to 40 bags come off.
I don't feel safe driving that heavy.
I just don't.
This is my limit.
You're getting 130.
130 bags.
- It's because it was too heavy last time I brought it,
and I felt that it was really unsafe.
I brought him what I could.
I think these Indians kill themselves to bring their loads.
And that's why they're off the edge of the cliffs,
crumpled up in the rocks.
As always, hopeful 'cause the day's beginning.
I'm sure I'll be beaten down to nothing
by the end of the day.
- It quit raining and dried up a little bit,
so hopefully it'll hold off the rest of the day.
After dropping their cargo,
Lisa and Dave are headed from Keylong back to Manali
to pick up their next load.
But ten miles back...
Rick's too sick to drive.
- I was BLEEP yesterday. I'm puking today.
Tomorrow's got to be death.
It's gonna be a progression of some sort, I think.
Oh, that's not good.
My stomach, it's empty, and it's growling,
and I don't want to put anything in it,
'cause I'm sick of puking.
Rick's also scheduled to pick up a load in Manali.
Well...
But now he's turning back to Keylong.
- I'm leaving India alive, not in a BLEEP casket.
- Honestly, I feel that Tashi's putting me
in more dangerous situations than I would normally be in
if I didn't have him.
- Well, if he's putting you in danger, just let him go.
I mean, you really don't have a choice.
So he's basically just trying to run your truck, isn't he?
- Yeah, and I mean, I keep telling him I'm in charge,
but I think he's having a hard time
letting a girl kind of be in charge.
And I don't know if that's it or not,
but it really seems like he just doesn't think that I can do it.
Then BLEEP can him,
and then he'll know you're in charge.
- Tashi. - Hi.
Yeah, he's Tashi.
Yep.
Tashi, get back in here!
Tashi!
Get in here!
- What'd you throw it over the side for?
- Watch the rocks. - I'm running over rocks.
Holy BLEEP, it's coming down right now.
- Watch out. Go fast. Go fast.
Tashi, shut the BLEEP up!
You want me to help?
I think I got her.
Well...
It's hard to keep on smiling through it,
so he's actually been a very good example to me.
Thank you, Tashi.
Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go.
Stop it!
Just let me drive!
You got to, like, trust me a little here.
Am I doing a bad job?
Do you want to drive, Tash?
No, you drive.
- Then how about you let me drive?
I think it's for the better.
I hope she don't get soft-hearted and back out.
I really don't.
I really hope she just says, "No, we're done".
- Oh, the moment has come, unfortunately.
I got to get this over with.
Here comes Tashi.
BLEEP fun.
I don't want to do this.
Maybe it's not a good idea.
Oh, well.
I was thinking that I am really eager
to prove it to myself that I can do this,
and so I was thinking what I could do
is go on this trip by myself.
Okay. All the best.
Okay, thank you.
Okay. Then go ahead.
I'm going, then. It's okay?
Hello, Lisa.
I don't think it's a good idea that you go alone,
because I can't trust you all right now
because now you can see more traffic here.
- You know, he's trying to appease her
or work, you know, something out.
You know what that is, don't you?
That's the smallest violin in the world
playing Who Gives a BLEEP?
Yeah, you have to.
I can't trust you.
You have been here since six weeks.
You have driving in this road, so you know all this.
- I'm not saying... I'm not saying I know everything.
- No, no, there was... - I'm talking.
- No, no, that was right. - I'm talking, Tashi.
No. Can I finish my sentence?
- I mean, anyway... - Apparently not.
- Uh, no, no, no. It's okay.
- Hey, Tashi, I got an idea. - Yeah?
- I'm still giving you the day off.
You really want to do that?
- I really do. I really need to.
Right, right, yeah.
- And so the best thing for you to do
would be to give me a little bit of advice
and then have a great day.
Okay, then, all the best.
Thank you very much.
Nobody likes to be talked down to.
Nobody likes to be told that they can't do it.
And I know that I can
in one way or another.
I'm figuring "can" doesn't mean I'm gonna be wreck-free.
It just means I'm gonna be alive by the end of it.
- I really had my reservations about her before,
but I don't anymore.
You can tell she knows how to do this job.
- Either Tashi will be proved right,
or I'll be proved right.
But driving alone
will affect Lisa in ways she never imagined.
You know, Tashi was her...
he was her bodyguard.
- Hey, get the BLEEP out of my door!
Hey, get away from the truck!
You touch that door, I'll break your hand!
And the Rohtang Pass lives up to its translation...
- They just said they just found some bodies.
"Pile of corpses".