Natural feature
Table Mountain
Table Mountain, Table Mountain (Nature Reserve), Cape Town
Flat-topped sandstone massif reached by a rotating cable car climbing seven hundred metres in minutes.
This guide to the cableway up Table Mountain in Cape Town opens in 1926, when Norwegian engineer Trygve Stromsoe pitched city leaders on stringing a line straight to the summit. It follows the German firm hired to build it and the construction crews who spent two years scaling granite and sandstone with no road and no crane, sleeping in huts pitched partway up the mountain. Every girder and length of cable rode up in a jury-rigged open car on a single rope.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.