Sydney 4WDer tackles one of Australia's toughest challenges
A 4WDer successfully descended one of the Australia's most punishing drops – a near vertical fall of several metres in Far North Queensland known as "The Gunshot".
Alex Lees from Sydney was tackling the Old Telegraph Track that runs to the northern tip of Queensland as part of an annual charity rally.
Lees approached the drop slowly in his beast of car and teetered on the edge.
Spectators stand around the edges of the drop that falls more than three metres into a swamp of mud in the video watched more than 3.34 million times on Facebook since it was taken last month.
Blokes hoot and whistle as Lee's 4WD tips into the tight little canyon with barely an inch to spare between either side of the vehicle and the rock walls.
It tips over the fulcrum and hits the mud with a languid splash before boosting forward and coming out clean except for the mud lining its bottom half.
Lees told the Daily Mail it was "bigger lift tires, an offset on the wheels and a whole bunch of right foot were contributing factors of how the old girl got through!"
The Sydney builder said he had not heard of anyone attempting The Gunshot in a few years because it has a high rate of failure, adding "1 in 100 people will actually attempt this ... one mistake and your cars a write-off".
It's a Herculean effort on Lees' part, tackling such a massive drop and doing the country proud.
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