India, Jan. 3 -- A new study by Sonam R. Lepcha, a Lepcha scholar and senior district official, documents how traditional cane suspension bridges-known as Ru-Soam-became lifelines for the Dzongu region after recent climate disasters. When modern bridges collapsed under the force of glacial floods and cloudbursts in North Sikkim, it was an ancient indigenous technology that restored access to isolated Himalayan villages.

A new study by Sonam R. Lepcha, a Lepcha scholar and senior district official, documents how traditional cane suspension bridges-known as Ru-Soam-became lifelines for the Dzongu region after recent climate disasters.

Authored by Sonam R. Lepcha, Office of the Additional District Collector (Development), Mangan, the resea...