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A man rebuilding the last Inca rope bridge
At the height of the Incan empire, a series of 200 woven suspension bridges crisscrossed the valleys of the Andes. Today, only one remains.
It was an incredible feat of engineering, and compared to the Roman road system—which traversed a relatively uniform topography—the Inca Empire went from the snow-capped peaks of the Andes down to the steamy basin of the Amazon. I, you know, in an era of doom scrolling and negative news and cynicism, there are many times where I kind of close my eyes and think that somewhere in a sweltering hut in West Africa, there’s a family that has been guarding a sacred instrument or that every morning there’s a slight woman who wakes up at 7 a.m. to begin making the world’s rarest pasta on the top of a mountain. The people who make our show include Doug Baldinger, Chris Naka, Kameel Stanley, Manolo Morales, Baudelaire, Amanda McGowan, Alexa Lim, Casey Holford, and Luz Fleming.
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