What counts as the world's steepest street?

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Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand, has the Guinness World Record for "steepest paved road over a continuous distance of more than ten metres". Which is enough to bring in quite a few tourists. What's the history? And what counts as "steepest street"?
Thanks to Mayor Dave Cull and to Gary Blackman. You can see some of Gary Blackman's photography in Te Papa's collection: collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ag...
And an interview with him: www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/a...
Updates:
In November 2022, Gary Blackman passed away: his obituary, and many of his photographs, can be found here. blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2022/12/0...
In 2019, the Welsh street took the record: www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-489... -- but in April 2020, the New Zealand street appealed and took the record back: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-5...
CITATION: von Worley, S. (2010). More Steeps Of San Francisco - A New Steepest Street Is Born. Retrieved from www.datapointed.net/2010/02/mo...
The Guinness World Record data is here: www.guinnessworldrecords.com/w...
And the Welsh street is referenced here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...
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@TomScottGo 5 лет назад

I had a technical hitch on the interview with Gary Blackman, and I've tried to recover the footage as best I can. That's an embarrassing mistake when filming a photographer! There are also links in the description to some of his photographs, and an interview with him. [Update: in November 2022, Gary Blackman unfortunately passed away. You can now also find a link to his obituary in the description, and it's worth reading.]

@rebane2001 5 лет назад

Did you roto him out and replace the background?

@alexpooper112pooper9 5 лет назад

How can the comment be 2 weeks old

@jakehellyeah 5 лет назад

its ok

@MrHack4never 5 лет назад

As usual: Tom is a time traveler

@ules5799 5 лет назад

@@alexpooper112pooper9 Finish editing > Publish private > write comment > publish on schedule 2 weeks later

@jesshill4279 4 года назад

I walked up that street in New Zealand in 2008 when I was 9 and I felt very accomplished until I turned and saw a guy cycle up...had mad respect for that guy

@Yolwoocle 2 года назад

Cycle up?!‽

@kahukura5154 2 года назад

Knew someone in my class who pogo sticked up it.

@NewsFlashStudios 2 года назад

@@kahukura5154 absolute madlad

@GrumpyGremlin. 2 года назад

Not saying going up that road with bike is easy task no way, but going down would be even crazier. (Considering there's traffic road ahead with dead corners.)

@kahukura5154 2 года назад

@@GrumpyGremlin. Some drunk students went down in a wheelie bin. I'm not sure if they survived.

@hamishlilley8342 5 лет назад

I was the paper boy for Baldwin street for five years! Never had to worry about skipping calf day at the gym let me tell you 😅

@tompw3141 4 года назад

Did you start at the top?

@bisken6547 4 года назад

@@tompw3141 i think that would have just burnt up his brakes instantly

@robloxpathe9296 4 года назад

Damn!

@ciaindeed8657 4 года назад

This is practicality.

@tron.6041 4 года назад

Bisken his brakes would have been S A N D.

@AverytheCubanAmerican Год назад

This world's steepest street was temporarily not the world's steepest street from July 2019 to April 2020, because that town you mentioned in Wales (Harlech) claimed the record for a street called Ffordd Pen Llech (gotta love the Welsh language) with a gradient of 37.45% compared to Baldwin's 35%. But Guinness gave the record back to Baldwin Street because they determined the best way to measure and calculate the gradient was to do it from the centerline. And according to that, Baldwin Street had a gradient of 34.8 percent while Ffordd Pen Llech had a gradient of 28.6 percent. So the Kiwis stole the Welsh's thunder

@rogeriopenna9014 Год назад

There are Brazilian streets with 50% grading

@sweetbabygangnz5260 Год назад

Then we claimed the title back and are officially the owners of the World's Steepest Street again! 😀

@MrVascoCrv Год назад

They just didn't look hard enough for steeper streets. Come to Brazil and you find that very common.

@velumtuossoup408 Год назад

@@MrVascoCrv not how world records work

@otaviooddone8667 Год назад

@@rogeriopenna9014 eu tenho certeza q os caras n checaram as pistas brasileiras

@davidmcalevey6465 2 года назад

I used to live two streets down from Baldwin for years. There are streets close by that almost equal Baldwin. Unfortunately one year two intoxicated students decided to take a wheeliebin to the top and jump in. Tragically they both lost their lives. Ok I have been revised by more studious peeps than me. One died, one ended up Para after hitting a trailer parked at bottom.

@the_lomax Год назад

i had a real derp moment and read that as "Technically they both lost their lives"

@Laous223 Год назад

@@the_lomax lmao

@ellalalalol Год назад

I thought only one of them died and the other one just got a TBI

@amac203 Год назад

Only one of them died.

@davidmcalevey6465 Год назад

Ok apparently only one died!! 🙄 tragic enough especially inside a wheelie bin

@niks6852 3 года назад

Why is no one talking about the historian, the dude is almost a hundred years old and is still able to recall events in detail.

@MAD0C96 3 года назад

Why is that weird? Not everyone gets dementia

@WraithLK 3 года назад

@@MAD0C96 it’s not weird, just admirable

@ABRTPDR 3 года назад

And his voice is so soothing!

@rjtimmerman2861 3 года назад

1929!! Not a lot of those left anymore

@horanghaeng 3 года назад

@@MAD0C96 many things can cause loss of memory, not only dementia, so the fact that he's almost 100 years old and has such good memory and his speech is still very stable is quite admiring indeed

@MistahFox 3 года назад

You know you've got a problem when the sidewalk has to be built out of stairs.

@tammurrell1444 2 года назад

SIDEWALK! Well clearly you are not a New Zealander. They are called footpaths.

@icannotcomeupwithanything4609 2 года назад

@@tammurrell1444 People have different terms for the same thing. Although footprints sound better than sidewalk.

@6z0 2 года назад

@@tammurrell1444 Sure bud, I hope you know only 0.71% of people on this earth are new zealanders

@rootgotter355 2 года назад

@@tammurrell1444 I'm a kiwi and I say pavement

@GaffsNotLaffs 2 года назад

@@tammurrell1444 we say sidewalk in America Well at least in the Midwest

@linkayy35 Год назад

It's so cool being a New Zealander I've walked up this street and I felt very proud that this is in my country

@johnmorrison6287 Год назад

Ex Aussie PM Scott Morrison's belly dangles left and right while he is roaming on the beach

@kinghomeboy Год назад

random question. Have you walked down Liverpool st in the Auckland CBD? It's considered to be the second steepest street in New Zealand

@LukeAps Год назад

That is so dumb.

@wta1518 8 месяцев назад

It's not even the steepest street in the world. Bradford St. in San Francisco has a 41% grade.

@jennyarnold9350 Год назад

I had grown up next to this street, and had walked up and down many times. Always really tired afterwards but great exercise for anyone. Great to see it on the map now. Go Dunedin!

@kungebbe1672 3 года назад

wierdly generated village paths in minecraft

@CaveyMoth 3 года назад

I love it when the farm is at the TOP OF A FREAKING MOUNTAIN.

@RabbiB0Y 3 года назад

@@CaveyMoth how do the villagers get up there why did they put it there if they cannot reach it villagers I need you to awnser

@harleyserafini51 3 года назад

@@CaveyMoth or when there is a ravine splitting the village in two.

@tristan6495 3 года назад

@@harleyserafini51 ravine*

@harleyserafini51 3 года назад

@@tristan6495 thank you, I couldn't remember the usual name for ravines.

@elijahdage5523 4 года назад

Shoutout to the stranger who walks into frame at the very end.

@ishaanagrawal3575 3 года назад

lul

@saturnpeax 3 года назад

lul (2)

@asher9571 3 года назад

lul (3)

@glizzygobberblob 3 года назад

lul (4)

@val-nt8tx 3 года назад

lul (5)

@IndigoIndustrial Год назад

I've jogged up and down this street. I saw a group of uni students do it straight after me. Dunedin is a nice university town and it has a castle.

@Supremax67 Год назад

And if people need to lose weight, they just have to live on top of that street.

@MegaDirtyberty Год назад

Two castles.

@Salithin Год назад

Nice university town?! I’ved stayed nights in dunedin and its HELL

@alliebean3235 Год назад

my brother flatted in an old sanitorium when he was at otago - one of his flatmates' bedroom was the morgue! fortunately it was never used as one, but that place was incredibly weird

@DeterminationV5 Год назад

here in Brazil you can find streets almost impossible to go up sometimes, definitly not the stepest by a mile. I used to climb a very steep street everyday to school for 8 years, it's almost the same size as the one in the video.

@GospodinJean Год назад

I was just thinking about that. In brazil there are steeper streets than that one, for sure

@marcoaurelio4903 8 месяцев назад

Clearly this brits dont known rua expedicionários in minas gerais.

@dozer1642 4 года назад

I’d like to relocate there but the asking price for the houses seem a bit too steep.

@martinebonita2658 4 года назад

Idk how to communicate my heavy sigh at this comment via text

@dELTA13579111315 4 года назад

I'm proud of you son, go get a cookie

@dELTA13579111315 4 года назад

you deserve one

@dozer1642 4 года назад

dELTA13579111315 I’m not sure if the sarcastic humor I intended was actually portrayed in my original comment. “Steep” is the word I used to subtly hint at a higher listing price whilst also implying that the actual percent slope of the terrain is above a normal range.

@HamuelPter 4 года назад

Dozer1642 yes everybody understood that

@AstinelPGR 4 года назад

Imagine you accidentally dropped your coins in that street.

@weegle. 4 года назад

Who the hell carries around coins?

@amegardenia8296 4 года назад

@@weegle. I do

@EvanHeidingsfelder 4 года назад

imagen droping any thing cylindrical down that street

@weegle. 4 года назад

@@EvanHeidingsfelder "not my pringles!"

@alex.hleconte6007 4 года назад

@@EvanHeidingsfelder or a phone with a slippery glass back😬😬 imagine it sliding down

@kapybara_park Год назад

Dunno why I'm finding this video three years after it was posted. Went to school near this street and had many fond memories hiking up it (sometimes during school hours when we had to go on milk runs). Lovely city to grow up in

@maukaman Год назад

It definitely depends on how you define “steepest road” because Waipi’o Valley Road on Hawaii’s Big Island has sections as steep as 45% grade. It’s also much longer and narrower than Baldwin Rd. It holds the title of steepest road in the US. It’s the only road into the valley so when careless tourists break down on it nobody can get in or out until their vehicle is moved.

@XMysticHerox Год назад

It's less about "definition" and moreso that Guiness world records is not a reliable source and a bit of a joke really. No this is not the steepest road it's just from a community that paid Guiness world records to say so.

@maukaman Год назад

@@XMysticHeroxValid point.

@cosmicjenny4508 5 лет назад

Imagine coming back from the pub and tripping down this. At least it’s a quick way home...

@ID-107 5 лет назад

Not if thepub is at the bottom and you live at the top. If you trip you're back at the pub. And when you are already there, why not have a beer or two? :D

@cosmicjenny4508 5 лет назад

+ID:107 Oh Lord, it’s a vicious cycle... WHAT HAVE THEY DONE??

@jespoketheepic 5 лет назад

That sounds more like a quick way to the hospital.

@rooneymara8061 5 лет назад

Assuming home is heaven

@piranha031091 5 лет назад

They see me rollin'... ^^

@SeanChristieMallon 2 года назад

Thanks for clearing this up

@kadthejedi 3 года назад

Imagine trying to do any activity with a ball on that street

@zhanjie9305 3 года назад

Mission: Try not to get tired when the ball is falling

@yellobanana6456 3 года назад

It's like greg heffley's street

@Basbxyy 3 года назад

@@yellobanana6456 omg that's what I thought

@CyberOrion 3 года назад

You'd probably roll down the hill along with the ball

@pjotrtje0NL 3 года назад

No worries, just kick the ball up and it rolls back automatically. Not rocket science, is it?

@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 года назад

This is a more believable story of what my grandparents had to go through, in order to go to school

@mnorth1351 3 года назад

Uphill ONE way!

@ibie27 3 года назад

I meet u again archnemeses

@rieldebonk1044 3 года назад

@@ibie27 He's Sad attention seeker lookin for clout.

@dr.alphys 3 года назад

Okay stop these comments plz

@sirMAXX77 3 года назад

Except it was 10 miles long and uphill both ways and in the snow.

@aryanbhaskar6502 8 месяцев назад

My dad navigated a camper van up that street when I was 9 and we were on our New Zealand sojourn. The nostalgia is heartwarming.

@nomusicrc Год назад

I love your heavy footsteps as you walked away

@keagnome106 5 лет назад

God I would have been so pissed if I every day found tourist standing in my garden taking photos.

@arthurgordon6072 4 года назад

The price we pay for living in God's Zone!

@Discrimination_is_not_a_right 4 года назад

Try it when a school bus blocks your driveway every morning.

@100GTAGUY 4 года назад

Green Giant why bother taking the time to grab the robe on your way out to shout at the heathens on your lawn when you could assert even more dominance by being fully nude in your natural habitat?

@neverstopdatta1402 4 года назад

@@100GTAGUY wtf lmao

@jasperharvey770 4 года назад

Discrimination is not a right. There is no school buses in dunedin

@WingedAsarath 3 года назад

I visited this street 13 years ago when I was on a trip over from England. It's a lot steeper in person than it seems on camera here. I also didn't make it very far up before my legs noped out.

@AndrewBrowner 2 года назад

is the street too steep to walk up... or are you just miserably out of shape?

@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828 2 года назад

@@AndrewBrowner both i think

@lucycowie7245 Год назад

geez these replays are mean, it's difficult for some, I didn't think it was that steep but other people think otherwise

@S050683 Год назад

Was thinking that because looking at this video the walk up to the top of Lincoln seems steeper. But given this place has the record it obviously can't be steeper in Lincoln. So in person it is steeper than it looks.

@tsunamis82 Год назад

I had to do the postie run on this street a couple of times. I zig zagged up it and that worked. Dunedin posties are very fit, no bikes for most of them as it’s a hilly city.

@Lampe2020 Год назад

That finishing sentence was so funny I had problems hitting the like button because my laughing sent the mouse cursor around the whole screen, my mouse is very fast.

@b-radsadventures6846 Год назад

Walked it when I visited! Thank you!

@pegeonpera 5 лет назад

"Now that we are at the bottom, there is something I want to say..." "What?" "I forgot my wallet at home"

@rizwanliaqat418 5 лет назад

HAHAHAHH! Goooooood One

@axeavier 5 лет назад

Imagine getting to the top of the street, trying to take a picture with your smart phone, fumbling with it and have it fall. It'll keep sliding until it hits the bottom

@OrangeC7 5 лет назад

@@axeavier That's unsettling

@1wasinAlpha 5 лет назад

now we're at home I got something to say! what? I was joking

@wytfish4855 5 лет назад

@@axeavier "oh shucks i dropped my phone." *looks helplessly at phone sliding down the street* "...guess i'll need a new phone"

@insanejughead 5 лет назад

I think we've lost Tom to New Zealand... You will be sorely missed, Tom. -The Rest of the World

@Kihidokid 5 лет назад

New Zealand: the planet's bonus track

@ARSZLB 5 лет назад

nice to see other RCR fans here too

@4P5MC 5 лет назад

Hey, I'll welcome him here! =P

@produKtNZ 5 лет назад

Can't blame him really. Tom , your citizenship is already in the mail =)

@OrangeC7 5 лет назад

@@Kihidokid This would explain why no one puts it in their maps

@gemstar3824 Год назад

0:39 Mr. Gary Blackman has one of the most soothing voices ever. I need him to read for books on tape.

@Wondul 2 года назад

I really enjoy your videos

@iiu19xx 5 лет назад

I love the way Gary speaks. It's so calming

@LisaBowers 5 лет назад

Just _slightly_ steeper than my driveway.

@buddyclem7328 5 лет назад

Same.

@KuraIthys 5 лет назад

Considering it's a 19 degree slope, I'd argue my driveway may be steeper than that. AND it's more than 10 metres long. XD Too bad it doesn't count as a street. Meanwhile, a house I lived in 20 years ago had a driveway that surely had to be in the 30-45 degree range. But, it's roughly a car length, meaning it's about 6 metres. That was not an easy drive to get down from - I mean, the car we had didn't seem to struggle, but there was a high risk of hitting part of the car against the ground.

@Beerfazz 5 лет назад

@@KuraIthys I think you are overestimating the slope. At 45 degrees even braking would not stop the car from sliding downwards

@guy_th18 5 лет назад

My street in Lyon (France) is much steeper and meets the 10 meters rule, so I really don't get this video...

@buddyclem7328 5 лет назад

@@Beerfazz I have gone up and down a 45° slope before. You can stop and go, but only very slowly, and the car will make some nasty brake noises.

@VicJang 6 месяцев назад

Tom Scott is the best. While you take that indefinite break, I’ll just rewatch the 10 years worth of things I might not know. Thanks Tom!

@reallyfurious Год назад

It's really difficult to show steepness in a video or photo. Also, it begs the question which is the "flattest" street in the world? The Outback Way across the Australian desert might be a contender?

@zybch Год назад

Length vs altitude deviation would be the best way to determine the flattest I suppose. They don't make builders' levels long enough.

@lmpeters 5 лет назад

I think I once tried to ride a bicycle along that ten-meter stretch of steep road in San Francisco. Riding up was extremely difficult, and riding down was terrifying.

@nintendork64 5 лет назад

I half-expected Tom to run back down the road at the end, yelling "One take! One take!"

@sketchpup5718 Год назад

Great to see you in NZ! - NZlander

@Clumpfy Год назад

This is amazing, I have been to NZ from October 2016 till february 2017 and it was in Dunedin, 20. December 2016( I'm from Germany) that I bought a car from a midaged guy living in this street. I remember thinking "god damn! This street has to be the steepest I have ever seen. And I am the lucky idiot that wants to buy a car exactly in this street", while I was walking up to his house. I never knew I was walking on some famous, world record holding landmark :D What the hell?! Btw, I was there at arround 7 PM there was no one taking pictures or anything.

@sweetbabygangnz5260 Год назад

😂

@E1craZ4life 5 лет назад

That guy at the end be like “How is that camera standing there?”

@tmmtmm 5 лет назад

would've been better if they filmed that part on the flat, so a tourist walks past and isn't angled over haha

@DSQueenie 5 лет назад

Adjustable tripod legs.

@lucasc5622 5 лет назад

bE LiKe

@karenmackstewart 5 лет назад

I love that guy at the end. The unexpected = funny.

@TheCandoRailfan 5 лет назад

Someone holding it.

@fortnight8685 5 лет назад

CitySkylines when you turn the anarchy mod on.

@steamcastle 5 лет назад

isn't the game called "Cities: Skylines"

@LivelyEngineer 5 лет назад

@@steamcastle Doesn't really matter people call it both and just Cities as well

@steamcastle 5 лет назад

@@LivelyEngineer you are completely right, it doesn't matter, and people looking up the game would likely find it. now I don't get why people are blaming dungeons and dragons for season 8 of game of thrones.

@LivelyEngineer 5 лет назад

@@steamcastle I've got no clue

@steamcastle 5 лет назад

@@LivelyEngineer all the game of thrones season 8 videos have commons about "GoT being ruined by D&D" but dungeons and dragons is way older then game of thrones.

@cerspence 2 года назад

What if you had to walk up it but you were really tired 🤣 and it was so hard 😂 😭

@RoflcopterLamo 2 года назад

I dont know what does happen if you try to walk up it?

@chaosgamesofficial Год назад

May I just say, it is so hype to see Tom Scott just talking about NZ. So cool!

@glenngriffon8032 5 лет назад

that guy at the end. walking up and looking at the camera like "Oh hey, free camera!"

@grabthebagnow 5 лет назад

"Oh hey, a free iPad!" -nobody suspicious

@thelastcube. 5 лет назад

@@grabthebagnow *GoPro

@TheXanderLex 5 лет назад

Thanks for visiting Dunedin! Glad you enjoyed our small city 😀

@samuelmcneill2816 4 года назад

No one enjoys Dunedin mate

@AuntyStan Год назад

The dairy on the cnr of Baldwin street sells all sorts of little souvenirs to do with the street as well as general dairy stuff, and you can even get a little certificate to say how you navigated the street

@hazelandcats Год назад

i live right by this street! whenever i walk past there’s so many tourists and tourist shuttles

@yourfavoriteclaymationpeng2926 5 лет назад

I'd be so mad if I lived on that street. Tourists constantly walking through my lawn and crowding the street, what a hassle.

@omardude39 3 года назад

1:51 "we don't always have front fences in New Zealand", over in the UK we don't either. Would be getting a nice 6-footer if this stupidity started straying onto my lawn, though.

@mahenonz 3 года назад

Well it’s not happening at the moment 😕. It’s only gotten bad in the last few years when heaps of tour buses and cruise ships started to arrive. Hopefully post COVID we can reset the tourist industry and do things smarter and better.

@LiarraSniffles_X3 5 лет назад

Hey! I've been looking forward to the day that you'd come and visit my street ever since you started touring interesting places. In fact I can even see my dad walking up into our house in the video! You must have filmed this a while ago, as he's had a broken leg for quite a while now. Damn though, I even keep an eye out for various camera groups; it's how I have multiple interviews in German magazines, hoping to see you and say hi/tell you about all the car wrecks since I've lived here.

@JJRicks 2 года назад

This is so cool!

@silkleaves 2 года назад

Hello from Waverly 👋👋

@Schnorbitz Год назад

Tom, you should check out the world’s shortest street. Ebenezer Place, Wick, Scotland. Some people are taller than it is long!

@boiledelephant Год назад

For pedestrian challenges, compare the Whitby Abbey steps, which one bloke made a hobby of running up and down for charity several dozen times a day. I don't know if he still does it, but I walked them and it was fairly gruelling.

@Cinemagic53 4 года назад

“If you’ve seen my channel before...” Yes I have Tom, and are you telling me you travelled from Montana to Finland for a “Shortest River” cutaway, yet for this, you didn’t wait to fly home to England and drive to Wales for the contested “Steepest Street?” 🤔

@pgre 4 года назад

The street in Wales has the steepest gradient, but Guinness World Records are bitches and measure in a competely different way

@isaakwelch3451 4 года назад

The shortest river is the "D" in Lincoln City

@coltonsupergame 4 года назад

Peter Gregson The problem with the Guinness Book of world records is they only give records to people in Olympic Tournaments, or to people who pay up. If you don’t give Guinness money, they won’t count it as a world record, even if you actually did break the record. Of course this does link back to the Olympic thing however, as Guinness doesn’t want to be know as what I just told you, so anything in the Olympics or big Tournaments, they will record.

@deetvleet 4 года назад

@@coltonsupergame Are you going to cite any sources for that or just spout BS? Sounds like you're cranky your record attempt wasn't accepted because you didn't notify an official from Guinness before trying.

@cahallo5964 3 года назад

I will send you into a rabbit hole, but research the beef Guiness had with the speedrunning community, happened this year, not hard to find.

@mougmeduro7017 4 года назад

All things aside, Tom was probably the most famous person in Dunedin at the time this was filmed...

@MinerZapped 3 года назад

@Harrison Scott i went to the Ed Sheeran concert in dunedin! came from welly

@bluz9951 3 года назад

yes, although depending on who was there maybe the prime minister, a couple bands and singers were born here and visit alot, like six60

@TheCrowDoctor 3 года назад

Yep as a dunner I can comfirm.

@Deadbeatcow 3 года назад

@Nakor Z scottish heritage, and dwarves are usually scottish in media...

@raptormaster666 3 года назад

Famous RU-vidr, yes. Famous person, I'll contest otherwise. Hamish Bond is a Dunedinite, went to Otago Boys High School.

@DannyHodge95 Год назад

Anyone in the UK that wants a taste of this, go to the Lincoln christmas market (or at any other time, nice occasion for it though). The road leading up to it is literally called Steep Hill, and you wont believe that there are streets steeper when you go up it.

@arilyell3757 Год назад

That car passing was perfectly timed!

@liamtownsley3450 3 года назад

I've been there, it's a lot steeper in person. trust me bruhs

@Twiggy163 3 года назад

I dont trust you. Will have to investigate for myself to confirm.... once COVID has buggered off.

@narbogbugsploda7660 3 года назад

@@Twiggy163 Please try to visit the rest of New Zealand, don't make that the purpose of your trip. It really is a gorgeous country.

@Twiggy163 3 года назад

@@narbogbugsploda7660 The plan is to rent a motorcycle and enjoy the scenery, roads, places and people that way. 'Tis a bit silly to fly around the world just to see a hill.

@Iron_Scott 3 года назад

I love New Zealand.

@Twiggy163 3 года назад

@@alfiedodds7052 I must still investigate. COVID hasn't buggered off yet so it will take a little longer.

@jaunt9191 5 лет назад

Well, this is a bit awkward... You flew all that way and now the record was broken in... Wales. Let's be real, though, it was probably your fault Wales stole the record!

@EdwardMillen 5 лет назад

Yep, I'd never heard of any of this until the other day and now I've just seen the news that it's not the steepest street anymore!

@W1llRoss 5 лет назад

How steep is it

@marksmith2276 5 лет назад

I was going to comment that in Wales that is just about the norm if you live in any of the valleys.

@translucenc3lol482 4 года назад

@@W1llRoss I believe the new steepest is ~37.5%

@W1llRoss 4 года назад

Soem Random Dude thank

@lapislazarus8899 Год назад

The steepest stretch of interstate has got to be La Bajada hill on I-25 in New Mexico, in between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. You'll see many people needing to pull off to let their vehicles cool down. It's an increase of 2000ft of elevation in about 2mi. The one side of the mesa has a 45% grade.

@hopsiepike Год назад

Wow. I wonder how it compares to the Grapevine - I-5 heading uphill from the San Joaquin valley into the Tehachapi mountains. Sea level to over 4000 feet in 6 miles. Signs to turn off your AC, and pullover spots with water for overheated radiators.

@sos.gamers Год назад

I was there! And it’s amazing how those cars are driven there 😅 cheers from Uruguay

@EnigmaDRS 4 года назад

The world record was that street in Wales for 9 months but now it's back to Baldwin Street.

@stahlschorsch 4 года назад

I don't get how the streets are passing that record between each other... are they trying to outsteep each other?

@rehabwales 3 года назад

As far as I know Ffordd Pen Llech, in Harlech, Wales is 37.4 at some point while this one is just 34. But it was decided that the steepness must be on the central axis. So it only get the title because it's steep at a certain point decided by someone. What a load of bollocks.

@trinidad17 3 года назад

@@rehabwales "What a load of bollocks." Fit description for most of the "Guinness World Records"

@MrGOLDENSHOT25 3 года назад

@@rehabwales nobody ever mentions Canton ave in Pittsburgh, PA when discussing this. Probably not long enough, idk though.

@gordonbennett5638 3 года назад

@@rehabwales Also, the Welsh goat track isn't a street

@mikhailangel3258 5 лет назад

running uphill back and forth would be a worthwhile exercise

@Michaelthekiwi 5 лет назад

Doing it on foot isn't impressive as the footpath has steps on the steep bit. Up and down on a bicycle is the gold standard - only a few videos on RU-vid of people doing that!

@dextrosity7350 5 лет назад

@@Michaelthekiwi that's why u don't use the footpath

@thelastcube. 5 лет назад

I was just thinking that only

@Rouge-Angel8 Год назад

thats as steep as my old drive way, what fun that was climbing up and down to get the bins out

@DeyvsonMoutinhoCaliman Год назад

There are a few in my city quite steep, here in Afonso Cláudio, state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Brazil is a very mountainous country, every city far away enough from the coast has incredibly steep streets.

@NathanielSnider1017 3 года назад

Update: The record is back to Baldwin street

@csheridan7364 3 года назад

I've driven down Harlech Street it's very uneventful, if it's the steepest Street in the world that's a shame as honestly it's something and nothing even In a car

@PIXELGamerzXvlogs 3 года назад

Omg that old man's voice is so soothing...

@PaulieLauraXombie1331 Год назад

Come to Burlington iowa, some points specially through the winter your car can barley get up most of the streets. We're also famous for the world's longest inclined/declined hill Snake Alley built in 1894. Similar to the one in San Francisco. But ours is in the world records. We do an art fair every year on the alley and going up and down is quite a task! Specially since I work at the art center all the way down the hill and have to go back and forth for supplies

@delaroche3703 Год назад

I literally live 1 minute away from that street, fun to see this video!!

@KitsuNoir 5 лет назад

Yup, that's tourism alright. Someone is filming on the side of the road, a random dude walks up in front of the camera. I kind of feel bad for the residents. I'm sure people being on their lawns without permission gets to be a real problem.

@liamwalton4183 5 лет назад

I'm at a loss at how it's a tourist attraction. People like Tom, who use it as a basis for a RU-vid video... maybe. But going out of your way to stand on a steep street? Weird

@arrgghh1555 5 лет назад

@@liamwalton4183 Hows it any weirder then going to visit the tallest building, or longest wall, or largest statue.

@liamwalton4183 5 лет назад

@@arrgghh1555 Because those type of things are considered monuments. People dont visit the Great Wall because it just happens to be the longest wall, they visit it for the historic value. Tallest building could be considered to have a modern historical value, also a feat in engineering. And like the largest statue was made as a piece of art to start off with. Created to draw in tourists and/or make a city look nicer. This is just a road that happens to have a high vertical-to-horizontal value. No effort was put into it... In fact it's a feat of lack of effort, and the simplest city planning they could have done, making life difficult for people living there for the sake of keeping roads symmetric. So there's a huuuuge difference there

@fetchstixRHD 5 лет назад

Liam Walton: I disagree with you on that. There are lots of people who couldn’t care less about the value of engineering in creating the tallest building or the history of the Great Wall, they often just want to go to places that are unique (for whatever reason). Similarly you could argue what the value of climbing mountains with similar reasoning. People get interested by different things and as long as you’re not hurting anyone (that includes trespassing on their lawns!) then it is what it is...

@liamwalton4183 5 лет назад

@@fetchstixRHD But I digress, you may not think so by my last comment about sheep, but I obviously dont mind. People do what people do, I wont think poorly pf somebody if theyre in the area and wanted to go visit it. I just personally really dont see the attraction

@gregorymaroda4860 5 лет назад

Canton Avenue in PIttsburgh is 37% over 6.5 meters. Not 10 meters, but as you say, it's somewhat arbitrary.

@jSyndeoMusic 5 лет назад

Gregory Maroda I’m actually kind of annoyed didn’t bring up Canton. Funny story: I ended up on it once back when I lived in Pittsburgh, I actually ended up driving on Canton on my way to a different area, and didn’t realize until later on that I’d driven on what may very well be the stepdad street in the world!

@JoelUniverse 5 лет назад

YES! And hi Greg. :)

@trey_rdee 4 года назад

10 meters is 32 feet so canton is steepest because it’s 630 feet = 192 meters

@broadkiwi6882 Год назад

Before I clicked this video, I said to myself "I bet he'll mention Dunedin", and only a SECOND in.

@jgboyer Год назад

You might be interested in seeing Harshberger rd. Johnstown PA. At the top it's called Hershberger with an "e". We never knew why. Anyway the incline is said to be 35 degrees but I walked up Harshberger several times and my calves would be burning each time.

@jacobfriesen8377 4 года назад

Dang that Gary guys voice is so calming

@zeratulrus142 5 лет назад

Growing up in a place with a lot of hills and staircases all over the place to traverse them, I had nightmarish dreams about not being able to climb a particularly steep street that only existed in my dream, and getting stuck somewhere because of it.

@danielfrancisco1461 2 года назад

I'vee had the same deram, trying to go up a hill but my legs are so heavy I barely can walk

@Terra_Lopez Год назад

I have a lot of dreams where the street is almost vertical, and I can barely hang on. And many other vertical climbs in my dreams that I can't climb, while others can. Any amateur psychologists in the house for me?

@willojames9910 Год назад

myself and 3 mates hired a beat up 30 year old mitsubishi whilst backpacking- urging that beuty up this street was one of the most epic parts of our trip- a memory made forever

@xCoiotex 2 года назад

There's a cross section street in brazil thats like 45 degree slope, called avenida tiete, insertecting with rua jurua, many kids died when biking this street down

@Ziialan 5 лет назад

So when we are playing City Skylines we are basically breaking a Guinness World Record in that game?

@steamcastle 5 лет назад

Cities: Skylines not City Skylines.

@Huntracony 5 лет назад

@@artisiole Its devs.

@erkinalp 5 лет назад

Install Road Anarchy and you can pave even steeper streets in Cities:Skylines.

@captainufo4587 5 лет назад

No, because almost avery city in Skylines has at least a couple 50% road AND rail incline. "When everyone is super, no one is super."

@ollikoskinen1 5 лет назад

@@artisiole Grammatically correct people.

@steevf 5 лет назад

I visited that street once back in 1991. It looks the same now as it did back them. The concrete slabs have still not slid down the hill. :)

@joshduthie3401 5 лет назад

There's another steep street just over a bit where they've done the same thing. I guess the usual method of paving isn't suitable for the steepest slopes.

@IAmFromTheTop 5 лет назад

One of the reasons they concrete on the steep parts is tar based roading products can melt in the summer and start sliding.

@timfagan816 Год назад

I live one street over from Baldwin street! My mate took his crappy car to the top, drove down again his engine cut out, while we was heading down the hill, and lost all breaking 🤣🤣🤣 was a fun ride!

@alexjvv7053 Год назад

So cool seeing you at Baldwin Street, I live jn this city and every few years we would hold a jaffa run, hundreds of people come to the street and roll jaffa candy down the street

@thestudentofficial5483 5 лет назад

Rock Bottom: hold *pfft* my *pfft* glove *pfft* balloon.

@tennisdude52278 5 лет назад

I can’t *pfft* understand *pfft* your accent

@enzldavaractl8345 5 лет назад

I'm disappointed in myself for getting the joke

@novameowww 5 лет назад

Eh don't worry about it. Sorry, that was probably incoherent. Eh *pfft* don't *pfft* worry *pfft* about it.

@pre-packaged_9692 4 года назад

Mmmmm pfft, glove pfft flavored. Pfft.

@helenetrstrup4817 3 года назад

You know it's steep when the sidewalks are stairs. 🤣

@tammurrell1444 2 года назад

SIDEWALK! Well clearly you are not a New Zealander. They are called footpaths.

@helenetrstrup4817 2 года назад

@@tammurrell1444 Potato, potato. I'm Danish, I have options. 🙂

@dmrfnk 2 года назад

@@helenetrstrup4817 The only danish option with a potato is keeping it in your mouth when speaking

@seekindova Год назад

1929?!? Gary Blackman is a trooper bro.

@magnesjberg24 2 года назад

My grand parents used to live up on a mountain in norway, it was scary as hell to get up there in the winter times.

@Sniper61119 5 лет назад

2:58 My dude droped the bass right there..

@notabsy 4 года назад

Why is that actually funny

@bait5257 2 года назад

Lmao

@weeral1 3 года назад

Looks like any one of a dozen streets in San Francisco. You get your work out on a bike in that city for sure.

@bruceblunderfield5431 Год назад

I'd suggest that Dewar Terrace between Jollimont st and Quarry street , at Sherwood in Brisbane Australia would be close and so would Gower Street, Towong in Brisbane, Australia!

@pizzamuncher007 5 лет назад

Imagine your front yard being a constant tourist attraction.

@cosmicjenny4508 5 лет назад

+Joshua Oana I’d just get the hose...

@robozstarrr8930 5 лет назад

NZ should knock 50% off income tax or property tax of the ppl who live there since it's touted as a tourist attraction!

@FactoryofRedstone 5 лет назад

A good opportunity to sell merch and food/water...

@graycuzzies5834 3 года назад

Who else lives in Dunedin like me? I love Dunedin and the views from its many mountains are amazing

@bigbenlorax 3 года назад

Yup, Kaikorai Valley. Grew up a block from Baldwin St. Cool to see it on here!

@sophie-my1ov 2 года назад

I lived there all my life until the end of last year where I moved to Christchurch. It's way better in Dunedin

@rachelcookie321 2 года назад

There’s nothing in Dunedin.

@Dorkasaurus_711 Год назад

Proud to say I live in Dunners. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

@angusmatheson8906 Год назад

Shout out fellow Dunners crew.

@PLKSSB Год назад

You should come to my island in Canarias. We have a bunch of those, would even say steepier but shorter in some cases. In my island, Tenerife, the beaches are just 10 km away from the highest point on the island (3700m height). So you can imagine the roads we have.

@darracqboy Год назад

0:48 unintentional asmr

@GrumpyGremlin. 2 года назад

On my old place we had this 14 degree long slope which was really annoying when carrying groceries, especially during winters. Then I moved elsewhere and now I just enjoy the small but meaningful detail that my road to store is flat all the way. Feels good to walk upright instead of tilted to forward or backwards all the time.

@GeovaniNogueira 2 года назад

Come to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and you gonna meet the truly steep streets, where even cars can't go and only the fittest pedestrians (almost) risk their live to climb it!

@jimmypage1969 2 года назад

If cars can't use it, then Is it actually a street?

@onorebakasama 2 года назад

@@jimmypage1969 Yes. Streets existed many thousands of years before cars did.

@FinoClips 2 года назад

Same in Chile. This like baby tier sloop. I honestly can't believe this got a Guinness World Record

@holliswilliams8426 2 года назад

Do you even know how the gradient of a street is actually measured? No, didn't think so.

@koi596 2 года назад

@@holliswilliams8426 nobody is talking about the gradient of a street

@kahutiarisk8075 2 года назад

Kinda weird to see one of my favourite youtubers in my home city

@SamMarsh04 Год назад

Come to Hobart we have some of the steepest and quirkiest streets in the world too!

@Mar-ft9xu 3 года назад

Imagine someone with asthma climbing up that street, only to drop their puffer at the top.

@TheCrowDoctor 3 года назад

As someone with asthma and has climbed up that street I do not know how I am still alive.

@cpotisch 3 года назад

@@TheCrowDoctor Do you live there or did you visit?

@TheCrowDoctor 3 года назад

@@cpotisch I live in a suburb of Dunedin which is close to kaikorai valley where it is located.

@narbogbugsploda7660 3 года назад

Time to lay on your side and roll after it

@SpiffingNZ 3 года назад

Asthmatic here, and I live in Dunedin. I climbed the street and was fine.

@Heowa 3 года назад

I spent three months working at a wildlife rescue centre in Ecuador, and for our free days we would take the bus to the city of Tena and spend the night at Hostal Pakay. After a hard day at work, tired and worn out and walking up that road to the hostel, I could have sworn that Calle Manuel M Rosales in Tena, Ecuador was the steepest street in the world...

@Noah-hk4ec 2 года назад

Gotta appreciate that if you have the video looped Tom walks out at the top and perfectly comes back from the bottom

@LeonHartMedina Год назад

I live in Valparaíso, Chile, and we have 3 streets like that, but the winner is one even steeper like a roller coaster, even the sidewalk next to it has steps 😅

@nicholastheologhidis235 5 лет назад

I live next to O'hea street in Melbourne and that has a max gradient of 30% but only an average of 13% over the 200m climb I've **nearly** ridden my bicycle all the way up it but it's really no joke how steep 30% is

@Rene-tu3fc 3 года назад

there are tons of streets steeper than that in Brazil. I live in one of them in Florianópolis, and I'm sure anyone from Salvador also knows several of them.

@mostlybrokenbritishcars3220 3 года назад

Then go prove it. You'll probably find that by the Guinness definition it isn't steeper. And if you find that it IS steeper by those definitions, then go and report it and make the place famous!

@paulssnfuture2752 3 года назад

@@mostlybrokenbritishcars3220 i see quite a lot of steep roads here in the highlands of the Philippines, but IMO why would it matter though if its not recognised. Not like Phillipines lack any tourist spots. It is so chocked up with tourist before the pandemic that adding this just seem like nothing.. i say let the others have it.