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Rope bridges
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After watching Indiana Jones the other day, I got to thinking. How did the people who built the first rope bridges attach it to the other side? Did someone really have to climb down shear rock faces and up the other side or is there a much simpler way of doing it that i just haven't thought of?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.There was a brilliant passage on TV last week showing the Swiss mountaineers climbing Everest in 1952 and one of them, I think Ernest Hoffstetter, climbing down then up a crevasse on the Western Cym in order to be the 'person on the other side' and help construct a rickety bridge for the rest of the team.