Talk:Inca rope bridge

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[edit] How do you get started

Question: How did they get the rope from one side to the other? Walk it through the valley? --Golbez 03:05, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

• Usually the bridge is built with a bootstrap approach.

1. First a couple of people go the long way round (or a village on the other side is contacted) to be group B
2. Meanwhile group A construct the large cables/ropes by twisting together thinner ropes.
3. Group A ties a light line to a stone and throws the stone across the gorge to group B. Several attempts can be made. If necessary the first line can be thrown across at a narrower point in the gorge that isn't to far from where the roads meet. Or the line can be fired across using a sling or a bow if the distance is too far to throw.
4. Group B uses the light line to pull across one or more stronger ropes which can be used to pull across the main cables.
5. The main cables are then tied around the stone bastions and drawn taught.
6. One person from group A then crawls along the cables, lashing them together to make a stable deck and stringing up to the two slightly higher cables that act as guard rails.

NB. don't try this at home. -- Solipsist 05:39, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Wow! I Give to props to Leonard_G for entering into contact with the owner of the Inca bridge images. I had been in contact with the owner the images, too, but a couple of months ago we lost contact and I wasn't able to upload the images with his permission. Good addition to the article, thanks for working on it. --Dynamax 20:23, 24 August 2005 (UTC)