Pete (Narragansett) posted this today:
and it reminded me of this article on the BBC website
The last Inca bridge master
and it reminded me of this article on the BBC website

The last Inca bridge master


...With a deep breath, Arizapana carefully lowered himself onto four tightly braided cables spanning the 30m crevasse, each the circumference of a man's thigh, and straddled them with his bare feet dangling over the sides. He then poured a few drops of clear cañazo cane liquor on each cable, whispered the names of the four mountain spirits who would decide his fate and pushed himself off the end of the stone abutment into the gaping chasm...
Gives me the weebies just reading the article.