🚗 Car Accident on the Way Home
🗻Mountain Snow ❄
On the way home from our trip, there was a big car accident right in front of a tunnel. Three tow trucks (cars?) came to the rescue. Driving in snow is definitely NOT fun...
집으로 가는 길에 터널 앞에 차 사고가 있었어요. 견인차 3대가 얼른 와서 도와줬어요. 눈 내리면 운전하는 것은 "노재미"에요...
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That is an intense looking mountain face covered in snow 😅 great shot!
Hope your winter travels go better then mine, day 2 snowed in 🤦♂️
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Thank you.This is the biggest mountain range here, and also, this is where the Winter Olympics was held. It's a really great mountain/range. It is called Seorak Mountain (설악산). If I translate it into English, it literally means "snow bad mountain" or more naturally..."The mountain with bad snow". In this case, this "bad" refers to how crazily it snows up there. It would snow up way past my hip level at the bottom of the range. In higher places, it would get up to 10+ feet deep. If you dropped any kind of small pet, baby, or item in the powdery snow, it was gone forever. Suffication. If you fall in, you can't get out and no one can rescue you cuz they'd fall in, too. (Kinda like quicksand). You'd start yelling for help or something but because of lack of oxygen and the surrounding snow muffling your voice, no one would be able to hear anyway. And snow would fill your mouth as you try to breathe in to shout out just one more little "help." Basically victims drown in the snow. It would tragically be a person's terrible doom. It's about 30 minutes south of North Korea and if war were to ever break out, us and our allies wouldn't be able to stand or handle these rigid temperatures and the spies would all hide up there in the mountains. Perhaps this is why the DMZ was chosen to run along this mountain range. It protects South Korea. Thank goodness for Seorak Mountain Range! It's practically the only thing that's blocking the North from coming down. Very treacherous terrain.
So the DMZ is a strategic afterall @gungho
I wonder why it gets a bad snowfall since it is quite far from North Pole.
It's the elevation @cryptopie. Wikipedia mentioned the altitude of 1,708 meters (=5,604 feet). The mountain range area is 163.6 square kilometers (=63.2 square miles). Something like 1,200 meters above sea level. It's the 3rd highest mountain/range in Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoraksan_National_Park
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Seoraksan National Park
Seoraksan National Park (Korean: 설악산국립공원, 雪嶽山國立公園; RR: seoraksan-gungnipgong-won) is a national park in South Korea. It listed by the South Korean government with UNESCO as a tentative World Heritage site. The government designated the area as a nature reserve in 1965 and UNESCO designated it as a biosphere reserve in 1982. It was also the first Korean national park to be named under the National Park Law in 1970.
Keep up the good work @onepagex
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Wow I can’t help but notice the amazing trees with snow though! But car accidents aren’t fun 😣
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