Silent Darien: The gap in the world's longest road

Stretching from Alaska to the pencil tip of Argentina, the 48,000km-long Pan-American Highway holds the record for the world's longest motorable road. But there is a gap - an expanse of wild tropical forest - that has defeated travellers for centuries. Explorers have always been drawn to the Darien Gap, but the results have mostly been disastrous.

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