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Kasteelspoort Hiking trail
Steep mountain gorge trail past a granite ledge nicknamed the Diving Board, with rusted remains of a Victorian-era cargo cableway.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Kasteelspoort Hiking trail in Cape Town centers on the rusted remains of a Victorian cargo cableway, built in 1893 to haul cement, pipe, and steel up the gorge for the Woodhead Reservoir above. It follows the engineers who strung a cable more than 700 metres up the cliff and hung an open metal skip from it, a bare box that riders at the time called simply terrifying. Stand at Breakfast Rock, the flat outcrop where laborers once waited their turn to be hauled up.
This audio guide was created using AI.