Table Mountain Aerial Cableway

This guide to the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway follows engineer Trygve Stromsoe, who kept seeing steel cable where he had climbed rock on foot, and the 1926 pitch that won over three of Cape Town's richest men. It traces two years of construction with no road to the summit, every girder and drum of cable riding up in an open wooden box on a temporary rope line. Listen for the wind still rattling the car as it climbs the same cliff those crews once scaled by hand.