Hängebrücke Furi
Steel-cable footbridge with a see-through grated deck, slung ninety metres above a roaring glacial gorge.
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This guide to the Furi suspension bridge above Zermatt starts with the steel grating under your boots and the Gornera river roaring far below it. It follows the Gorner Glacier as it pulled back from the slopes around Furi, and the Zermatt hotelier who went looking at the rock it left behind in nineteen sixty-six. Along the way you'll hear about an old soapstone quarry and the stoves of the Upper Valais. Best heard standing mid-span, looking down.
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