No other region on earth has as many high bridges as China’s remote Western Province of Guizhou and there is no waterway within its borders with a greater collection of super-high bridge spans than the mighty Beipan River. Translated as the North Winding River, the BeipanJiang flows on a...
When built, it was the "First in China and Sixth in the World" large-span steel truss girder suspension bridge, the first bridge built across a canyon in mountainous area with a thousand-meter span in the world and the only super bridge which could allow people to enter the interior of ...
s flown Breitling Cosmonaute illustrates what a watch will look like if literally “worn hard and put away wet, ” and then retrieved 60 years later. Predictably, the movement shows heavy rust on most of its parts, with only the main chronograph bridge and the wheels remaining relatively ...
Toppling all previous spans for height at the time of its opening in 2016, the new Beipanjiang Bridge Duge is the first crossing to ever surpass the 500 meter height barrier as well as becoming the first cable stayed bridge to ever hold the title of The World’s Highest Bridge. No oth...
Qingshuihe Bridge 清水河特大桥 Weng'an, Guizhou, China 1,332 feet high / 406 meters high 3,707 foot span / 1,130 meter span 2016 At the time of its opening in 2016, Qingshuihe Bridge surpassed Balinghe Bridge as the highest and longest suspension span in Guizhou Province. The giant cr...
Two years later that triumph was followed by the river’s first road bridge record when the Beipanjiang Bridge Huajiang opened in 2003 surpassing the 300 meter height threshold as well as becoming the first suspension bridge in the world to surpass the height of Colorado’s Royal Gorge ...