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The cable car that you pedal by hand

2023-06-19

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channel thumbTom Scott
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Through the mountains of Slovenia, there are manual cable cars: some historic, some more modern. There aren't many left. I was able to try one, and to talk to the person who still maintains it.

Just to be clear, there are a few of these in other places in the world, too. There's at least a couple in North America, one in Germany, and one in Turkey! (Or at least, I think they still exist.) But the video of the Cicka got me to beautiful Slovenia, and the story that I found there was worth the trip.

Local producer: Jure Kreft at Fixmedia https://fixmedia.si

Camera: Darko Sintič

Audio mix: Manni Simon and Graham Haerther

"Cicka - ročna žičnica čez Savo by Jure Senegačnik" is available at https://youtu.be/w3i5BN2VpWs and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode (that license does not extend to the rest of this video)

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