First tourists step out on world's longest suspension footbridge

People walk across the newly-built world's longest suspension bridge after its official opening in the mountaimore

Named Sky Bridge 721, it took two years to build at a cost of 200 million crowns ($8.4 million) and is suspendmore

It sits at more than 1,100 metres above sea level and connects two mountain ridges in the country's northeast more

The bridge tops the 516-metre Arouca Bridge in Portugal, which had previously been the longest suspension footmore

The new Czech bridge, though, is not without its critics. The Czech Nature Conservation Agency's regional diremore

Officials hope it will boost tourism in the area by giving a different look at the forested landscape. REmore

People stand on the newly-built world's longest suspension bridge a day before its official opening in the moumore

People walk across the newly-built world's longest suspension bridge after its official opening in the mountaimore

People walk across the newly-built world's longest suspension bridge a day before its official opening in the more

People walk across the newly-built world's longest suspension bridge after its official opening in the mountaimore

A staff member walks across the newly-built world's longest suspension bridge a day before its official openinmore