For the first time, the public will get an opportunity to see what happens during the cable car's annual maintenance.
For the first time, the public will get an opportunity to see what happens during the cable car’s annual maintenance.The image of 11 immigrant workers taking a mid-air meal atop the nearly completed RCA building at New York’s Rockefeller Centre captured the imagination of the world.
At long last South Africa has its own version – of the men walking the cables of the Table Mountain cableway during its annual maintenance.It is one of the new seven wonders of the world. Table Mountain is nature’s spectacle. Yet it’s machines and humans that have made it one of the world’s leading tourist destinations.
An amalgamation of wires, gears, and moving metal parts, expertly crafted with Swiss engineering and ultimately brought into the world through South African toil. All with the sole intent of taking people on a five-minute-long journey to reach the top of Table Mountain. “I never thought that this was something for the public to see. I was just trying to capture the scale of the operation and men working with machines in such a unique environment.
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