Only Way to Get to the Bodies Was Through Cable Car's Floor

By Kate Seamons

January 2, 2018

"It was below 10 degrees, ice cold" after midnight Tuesday as the last people came off South Africa's Table Mountain, having been stranded there for hours, says a rep for the country's national parks.

What had kept them there were those who'd suffered a worse fate. The African News Agency reports a male Japanese climber and his local guide fell to their deaths while rappelling down the Arrow Final route on the Cape Town mountain Monday along with a second female climber, who survived.

Rescue team member Johan Marais says the two were seen "dangling" around 5pm on ropes roughly 500 feet below a station used by the cable car service that takes tourists up the mountain. "A third person‚ also on a controlled rope‚ is administering CPR to one of the persons," he noted, per TimesLIVE.

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