Deadliest Journeys - Season 1

The forests of Gabon are some of the densest and most mysterious in the world and a few adventurous souls risk it all in this green hell every day.

Driving tankers loaded with 20 000 pounds of gasoline, these wild men drive on unmapped roads to deliver supplies to illegal gold mines in the heart of the Amazon Jungle.

Hundreds of metres above the ground, criss-crossing the valleys of Bolivia, is a network of dangerous makeshift cables that coca growers whizz across to transporting their harvest.

The roads in Guyana are treacherous but in one difficult journey taking mining supplies across the forest Roy can earn up twice the average salary.

With only 2% of the road network paved, Congo becomes a transportation nightmare in the rainy season.

In Bangladesh, bamboo harvesters raft massive floats through treacherous waters to deliver their payload.

From catastrophic mudslides to attacks from armed gangs, these truckers must be ready or anything when crossing Guinea's mountains.

A winding road through one of the harshest environments in the world makes for the most dangerous trade route in history.