World's scariest three-point turn? Trucker pulls off tight manoeuvre on edge of 1,000-ft mountain

Joachim Held drives along the perilous route twice a day as he takes trees up and down the peaks of Eisenerz, near Styria, Austria

A careful logger attempts the world’s scariest three-point turn - on the edge of a 1,000ft-high mountain.

Joachim Held drives along the perilous route twice a day as he takes trees up and down the peaks of Eisenerz, near Styria, Austria.

And on one particularly perilous stretch, he is forced to edge his hefty truck filled with 65 tonnes of wood around a tight hair pin bend.

The tight corner would require a well-executed three-point turn in most trucks, but Joachim makes things even trickier by reversing into the left-hand turn.

Video footage captures him eventually managing a four-point turn - as the back of the truck dangles off the edge of the 1,000ft mountain.

Burly Joachim, 43, who began driving trucks aged just 19: 'I have done this so many years that it's second nature now. I can understand why people find it scary.

'The drop is more than 1,000ft - if something goes wrong I'm dead, so that's why I make sure that things never go wrong.


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'Trees fall in wrong places, logs fall off the trailer and the truck breaks down. They are normal, so I don't see them as problems any more.

'I know that if I turn wrong, I will die, so I drive carefully.'