Lay the second rope over your head. You now have two cable-stayeds. Where do you feel a pushing force, or compression? Notice how the cable-stayeds transfer the load of the bridge (your arms ...

Q'eswachaka Bridge is the last of its kind. The handwoven rope bridge in Peru was once a part of a sophisticated Incan road system that ran through South America 500 years ago, but is the only one ...