I have been curious a while about an unmapped road I passed outside Longyearbyen on Svalbard, so on a recent trip just for the heck of it I went off without a trailer and explored that road. Odd to be completely off the map, travelling across empty space in the Trip Advisor screen! Anyway, the road became rougher and then snowy and then very snowy, and the grade eventually became so steep that even with manual transmission I could not get up the hill. So I cheated and flew the godcam up there
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and found a very cool radio tower installation.
My question to whoever did Svalbard is, did you intend that road to be impossible? is there a model of truck that can make it up the grade? even in 1st gear I could not do it. My wheels just spun. Is there any way to drive a truck up there?