Bà Nà Hills Cable Car

This guide to the Ba Na Hills Cable Car in Da Nang follows the rule Sun Group gave its Austrian and Swiss engineers: reach the summit without cutting down a single tree, forcing crews to carry towers and machinery up the slope by hand. It traces what that climb was built to recreate, back to 1919 when French colonists first sought relief from the coastal heat up this same mountain, building villas, a hospital, and a wine cellar cut into the rock. Notice how the mountain air cools as the cabin rises.