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Six decades after Switzerland and Nepal began a quiet engineering partnership, the country has passed 10,000 suspension trail bridges — the…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 20, 2026
Every multi-day trek in Nepal — Everest Base Camp, the Annapurna Circuit, Manaslu, all of it — includes at least one moment of walking out onto a swaying steel-cable bridge, prayer flags snapping overhead, a river roaring somewhere far below. Most trekkers…
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What this means for you On a practical level: those bridges are why your trek is possible at all. Before this programme, crossing the wrong river at the wrong time of year could mean a days-long detour, or worse. Now, on routes like the Everest Base Camp…
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