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World's highest bridge opens to traffic in China
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Times of India
China inaugurated the world's highest bridge, the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, towering 2,051 feet above a river in Guizhou province.
Polish skier climbs Everest, skis down sans extra oxygenThe world's highest bridge opened to traffic in China on Sunday, state media said, capping an engineering feat three years in the making and snatching the record from another bridge in the same province.
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers 2,051-feet above a river and vast gorge in the country's rugged southern province of Guizhou, also home to the 565-metre Beipanjiang Bridge that is now the world's second highest.
Live drone footage broadcast by state media on Sunday showed vehicles traversing the immense structure, its support towers engulfed in clouds.
Bargiel has also climbed and skied down K2, the world's second-highest mountain, and many other prominent peaks.