Twaalf Apostels

This guide to Twaalf Apostels above Camps Bay in Cape Town starts with a simple question: how many peaks are you actually looking at? The name promises twelve, but geologists who have walked this ridge count seventeen or eighteen separate buttresses, and the guide traces that mismatch back through the sandstone's origins as ancient river sediment and the continental breakup that later fractured it into slabs. It also follows Sir Rufane Donkin, the British governor who named the range in 1820.