Remember - "Don't look down!"

[oldbrownhat]

Pete (Narragansett) posted this today:

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...
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Gives me the weebies just reading the article.

 

[Bekeart]

Reminded of Another bridge

The Bridge of San Luis Rey . . .

Bekeart

 

[robvious]

they are hiring...

 

[Hair Trigger]

That rope bridge reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWLE9HIqUM[/ame]

 

[mckenney99]

Pete (Narragansett) posted this today:

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...
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Gives me the weebies just reading the article.

NOPE, ain't gonna happen. The only way you're gonna get me across that thing is unconscious.

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

I was taught that when something makes you look down…you better look up quick as it's likely a diversion or a trap.