Geologist John Compton invites us to see the mountain not as a postcard peak, but as an ancient, ongoing process that can recalibrate how we think about time. He also wants Capetonians who live under ...

Long before artists climbed its slopes, Table Mountain was imagined from the decks of ships: exaggerated, fortified, volcanic and teeming with beasts. The first in a new series explores how hearsay, ...