I was talking to a lorry driver I know, and he and two other lorries with lowloader trailers, travelled up that same mountain road a few days earlier than that incident, on their way with equipment to Narvik in Norway. Apparantly the conditions were exceptionally bad, even the locals saying so. One time he could not get up a hill and had to reverse 4kms to get a run up, and once over the top had to keep momentum for the next upgrade. They did require a recovery at one point and it was a much bigger recovery vehicle than that in the incident filmed, an 8 wheeler with Boniface recovery gear.