Table Mountain

This icon is always a designer favourite, it's the pretty universal sign for an escalator.


The picture below is a photo of Platteklip Gorge on Table Mountain looking down from near the top. If you look really carefully you won't see one of those nice escalator signs, and that's because there isn't one. I, for my sins decided to walk up there on the Bank Holday to see what it's like. Hell is probably a good way of describing it, I think it's about a 3k walk, but covers about 700m vertically. The base is at 363 m and the top at 1,086 m. Safe to say I was a bit of a mess once I got to the top, bit like Stalone at the end of Rocky where he can't see or walk and is dripping with sweat. I was trying to prove a point by doing it in under an hour, but only manged 1 hour 7 minutes.