Would you walk across this bridge? [View all]
The 1,693-foot overpass hangs 570 feet above a roaring river and wobbles as people walk across it.
At nearly a third of a mile long, a newly opened, record-breaking suspension bridge in the town of Arouca, Portugal, demands a bit of a head for heights.
As Reuters’ Catarina Demony reports, the bridge, which hangs 570 feet above the Paiva River, consists of a see-through metal grid that wobbles with each step.
The 516 Arouca is the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the world, overtaking Switzerland’s 1,621-foot Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge by about 70 feet, reports Rachel Treisman for NPR.
The longest comparable bridge in the United States is Tennessee’s Gatlinburg Sky Bridge, which stretches a comparatively modest 680 feet across a valley in the Great Smoky Mountains.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-longest-pedestrian-suspension-bridge-opens-portugal-180977641/
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