Spare a thought for the journalists on the world's worse road

If you are struggling with getting a story for end of term assignments spare a thought for two Reuters journalists Chris Buckley and David Gray who are travelling to Chengdu in Sichuan Province in China’s south-west to try and get into areas where they had heard that violent demonstrations regarding Tibet had occurred

They describe the world's worst road on their assignment

two foot of snow and lots and lots of ice. Our inexperienced driver had to
go back and get chains after we started sliding backwards - not enjoyable when u
look over the edge of the road which now had a drop of some 600 metres.

But it gets worse

The pot-holes this time were triple the size and a much much more often than the previous WWR. The police presence was at least ten times that of the previous WWR, meaning our ‘ducking down’ skills had to be repeated more and more often the further we got into the troubled areas. But to top it all off, the whole experience lasted four times longer than the previous WWR trip. Total time in the car was nearly 36 hours, and when your driver snores for 4 of those hours barely 3 feet from your head, its not very enjoyable