National park
Table Mountain National Park
Flat-topped mountain massif with a rotating cable car climbing sheer cliffs to sweeping coastal views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town traces the 1929 cableway built by a Norwegian engineer and three of Cape Town's wealthiest men, including diamond magnate Ernest Oppenheimer, who turned the mountain's summit into a ticketed attraction. The original cableway company budgeted one hundred thousand pounds for the project and a Leipzig firm strung the steel cable up the cliff face. The original open-sided cars carried twenty-five passengers at a time, a fraction of today's rotating cabins.
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