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Dangling over a vertiginous gorge, the Apurimac River flowing around 10 stories below, Indigenous Peruvians show no fear as they repair a centuries-old Inca rope suspension bridge -- the world's last.

On either side of a gorge high in the Peruvian Andes, an aging rope bridge sags precariously over the Apurímac River. 1 of 13 A Quechua man walks across the old suspension bridge at the start of the ...

The Q'eswachaka bridge is a traditional Inca rope bridge rebuilt by locals in Peru every single year. They use grass woven into cords to complete the structure over the Apurimac River in three days ...

Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass. "I believe since ...

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 ...

Every June, the Quechua indigenous people celebrate a dedicated conservation ritual in the heart of the ancient Inca empire to rebuild the Q'eswachaka rope bridge.

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 ...

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 ...