Name: The cable car that you pedal by hand
Uploaded: 2026-01-16T17:40:28.000Z
Duration: 3 min 51 s
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A few months ago, I got a message from someone in Slovenia telling me about the Tsitska, a very strange and very sketchy looking manual cable car across the River Sava.

And I immediately wanted to visit and film it.

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The problem is, it's badly documented and what there is isn't in English.

So I hired a local production team who very quickly told me it's been closed.

Like most of the manual cable cars in this part of the world, it wasn't being maintained and it was becoming unsafe.

Fixing it up to modern standards or replacing it would be far too expensive, just so a few hikers can use it.

But one of the perks of having local producers is that they can find things that I really can't.

Because not only did they find a different cable car, one of the last still working ones, with a completely different and even sketchier design, they found the man who still maintains it to this day.

Safety here, like the sign says, is on your own responsibility.

This type of cable car goes back to the First World War.

The mountains here were part of the front line and cable cars like this were installed as makeshift bridges.

But this one's from the 1950s, built after an old bridge put up by the Italian army got washed out by a flood.

And I know this looks sketchy, it sounds sketchy, it squeaks, it bounces, it sways.

But now I'm standing here, it feels solid.

I have no worries about this, except if I draw attention here, could the government suddenly decide, well, actually, this is against regulations and step in?

Or could some local kids decide to visit and play around and rake it or vandalise it, or maybe get hurt?

I've got a duty of care to the places I visit, and this is something that the locals are clearly very proud of.

A couple of them used it while we've been filming.

Most of these manual cable cars are gone now, and as far as I can tell, there's no definitive list of those that remain.

One day there'll be history, but then one day, so will everything.