CommunicationPublished on 9 November 2023

«The collaboration with local people was excellent»

Bern — Engineer Hans Aschmann led the first Swiss-backed construction of a suspension bridge in Nepal in 1960–61. In this interview, he recalls that pioneering mission.

Ang Tsering Sherpa painting a bridge element with paint and brush.
So it took me five days on foot to get to the site where they planned to build the bridge.
Hans Aschmann

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