Liede Bridge

This guide to Liede Bridge in Guangzhou starts with the rows of metal spikes bolted along its cables, out of place on a bridge built to look sleek rather than armored. It traces them back to the morning of April 22, 2025, during the worst of rush hour, when a man began climbing the bridge's own cables hand over hand toward the top of its hundred-and-twenty-eight-meter tower while commuters sat frozen in traffic below. You'll also hear about an earlier climber in 2019, on the same cables, years before.