A man rebuilding the last Inca rope bridge

by kaonwarbon 6/6/2025, 11:44 PMwith 31 comments

by jmward01on 6/9/2025, 5:51 PM

Everyone thinks of Machu Picchu but this bridge is pretty high up there on interesting things to see, and cross.

by taericon 6/9/2025, 4:44 PM

The account of the final weaving of the bridge is awesome. I'd imagine it isn't much different from any job you can do while "dangling," but still. Wow.

I am curious on the idea that wheels would not have been helpful? I get that full blown carriages and such would have been a bit of work to use, but it isn't like a wheel barrow isn't already useful.

I'm also curious on how they wound the rope without some sort of wheel involved?