Tamara Ávila Atagua of The Sloth Conservation Foundation builds rope bridges between trees to help Costa Rican sloths remain ...

The NOVA team of experts in "China Bridge" lashed together the wooden structure of their Rainbow Bridge using rope woven with strips of bamboo. Bamboo rope may come as a surprise to many ...

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 ...

The Natural Bridge Caverns are home to the biggest commercial cave system in Texas. Above-ground adventures include zip lining, a rope course, a maze, gem mining, shopping and dining. But the ...

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 ...

MIT professor John Ochsendorf, one participant, has become an authority on the rope bridges built to traverse ... They observed its natural course and directed it, preventing erosion.