The hanging bridge has several thick ropes that serve as a platform, with two more for holding on on either side. The replacement of the old ropes takes three days. Some of the workers chew coca ...

Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to literally string a crossing together spanning ...

Every June, communities in the Cusco region, capital of the Inca Empire, join efforts in making ropes out of q'oya plants to renovate the Q'eswachaka bridge, the last of its kind, keeping alive a work ...

A torrent of water rushes underneath, gray and angry. Wind whips. Thunder rumbles in the distance. Clouds threaten rain. And before you is a bridge. But it is not just any bridge. It spans from one ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

The annual reweaving was canceled in 2020, due to the pandemic, causing the bridge— one of the last surviving Inca rope bridges —to collapse from disrepair. But community members were able to gather ...

This handwoven rope bridge is a remnant of the great Incan road system. Before, there would be hundreds of these rope bridges connecting cliffs and people. Now, this is the last one in existence.