象山

This guide to 象山, Elephant Mountain, in Taipei starts underground, with coal miners who once tunneled through this slope long before it was ever a hiking trail. You'll hear how three old Songshan mines and a ridge of beast-named peaks, Elephant, Tiger, Lion, and Leopard, gave way to photographers scrambling up sandstone boulders for the classic skyline shot. It traces the notched footholds cut into the rock, and just how old the stone underfoot really is.