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- Strategic Highway 1 (S-1), also known as the Gilgit-Skardu Road (Balti: སྐར་མདོ་གིལགིཏ་རྒྱ་ལམ) or Skardu Road, is a 167-kilometre-long (104 mi) highway in Pakistan that links the cities of Gilgit and Skardu in Gilgit−Baltistan. It was constructed by the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers and the Association of Chinese Engineers from 1970 to 1982.
The highway begins south of Gilgit on the Karakoram Highway, near Juglot, and extends eastward towards Skardu. The surface was initially gravel, but some sections were later paved. The road is winding and, in some places, only wide enough for one vehicle to pass at a time. On other parts of the highway it is bordered by a cliff drop of hundreds of meters unprotected by guardrails. Total travel time between Gilgit and Skardu is around 4 hours.
The highway can be blocked for weeks at a time depending on conditions (though two to five days is more common). The road ends in Skardu, the capital of Skardu District and Baltistan division, at an elevation of 2,226 m (7,303 ft) above the sea level. It is one of the most dangerous roads in the world.
Since the early eighties, the road had not been renovated, and was in a very poor condition. Fatal accidents, landslides, rockfalls and floods, were not uncommon along the route. Consequently, a large number of vehicles, with passengers and goods, used to fall off the road into the Indus River flowing down below. Several dozens of people died in accidents every year. The incidence of mishaps increased especially during the rainy season, when the broken and slippery road, coupled with the hydro-meteorological hazards, wreaked havoc, blocking the road every now and then, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded.
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