Sea to Sky Gondola
Cliffside gondola ride climbing near nine hundred meters above a fjord, twice sabotaged by an unknown cable-cutter.
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This guide to the Sea to Sky Gondola in Vancouver traces two acts of sabotage a year apart, when someone slipped into the dark forest above Squamish and severed the ride's steel cable. It follows the August 2019 attack that sent most of the gondola's cabins crashing down the granite face of the Stawamus Chief, the costly rebuild, and the second cut that nearly killed a guard in September 2020. The case has never been solved. Best heard riding up toward Howe Sound, in the cabin the saboteur twice tried to bring down.
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