Salim Reshamwala

You're hearing the sound of wind on the longest spanned pedestrian bridge in the world, the Baglang Parbat footbridge in Nepal.

It stretches over 500 meters, about 1600 feet between the mid hills of Nepal.

Now, hills in Nepal are very, very different from what the rest of the world might call hills.

On this bridge between two hills, there's a river below you, absurdly small looking, because it's 122 meters.

That's 400 feet down.

You're 400 feet up in the air.

400 feet.

Just for comparison, if you took the Statue of Liberty and stacked another Statue of Liberty on top of it,

you'd still have 98 feet to go until you reach this very thin wire suspension bridge.

It's such a pleasant thing being on a bridge.

It takes you from one place to another so easily without any risk.

I really enjoy being on it.

Now people even go to the bridge to just see it.

People consider crossing the long bridge to be a spectacle now.

On a thin strip of metal in the sky.

I'm Salim Rashamwala, and from TED, this is Far Flung.

In every episode, we visit a different location to understand ideas that flow from that place.

And today we're heading to one of the most mountainous places on earth to see how building bridges creates connections and not just between two points.

Now, Nepal is known for extremely high mountains, but it's easy to forget that people are moving across those mountains.

In most places, you might not think twice about a bridge you cross, but in Nepal, bridges are fundamental to survival, the only way to move without trekking up and down a huge mountain.