Table Mountain National Park

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.