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    Maggie & Peter Slingsby

    Dec 17, 2019 4 minutes
    – Kyra Tarr

    How did you two meet? Maggie: I arrived in Cape Town in 1972 after overlanding to South Africa from London with a group of friends. At the time, there weren’t many good maps of Cape Town and I was terribly confused by the geography of the city. To my mind, Table Mountain was facing the wrong way! As a foreigner, your natural inclination is to assume it faces south. I struggled on until one of my friends told me about a guy she knew who drew maps…

    What made you start creating maps? Peter: I got impatient with what

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