You know those roads where if you turn to hard/late, then you’ll end up dropping 2000 ft off a cliff? Yeah my brain cannot comprehend how they were made. I know most trails are made by people/horses constantly walking over it. But the fact that these trails are almost perfectly made for transportation, and are just casually on the side of a mountain confuses me.
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In the past the loss of human life was acceptable for those kinds of projects. People would frequently die while working and the only solution was to hire replacements.
The Panama Canal cost 30.000 workers their lives. Can you imagine that the governments and construction companies were willing to spend that much on a project? Imagine how many died in building those roads and carving them out of mountains.
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