I've always wondered what it would be like to drive a truck down the Otira Gorge, I've always personally thought "Fuck that"
It's hard to get an idea how steep it actually is from pics:
http://www.photoshare.co.nz/PhotoSha...C_28111815.jpg http://www.transit.govt.nz/content/p...ge-9356&res=lo
I blew a radiator hose clean in half in the middle of the Viaduct going up once and had to do a U turn to come back down, I shit my pants enough doing that, fuck being in a truck and coming across ICE or something.