the truck bears traces of the hazards of the karakoram highway. the truck continues on board to china we stay in pakistan. we have a police escort as we continue on to an enormous construction site. with the 1st western television crew that's been permitted to film here. it's a long drive through a beautiful but dangerous landscape. china and pakistan have been building this road for some 10 years now but it's not clear what purpose it will serve a few empty trucks hardly seem to justify it it's a very tenuous strand on the new silk road. the car kora mountains also seem to prefer their isolation falling rocks often damage the road which then has to be repaired. in january 2010 a massive landslide killed 20 people in the. village of out of body. it blocked the loser river creating a large lake a section of the karakoram highway ended up under a rock in water. the highway was rerouted through the mountains before setting out to cross the alps with a team of elephants cannibals supposedly said i shall find a way or i will build one his goal was to c