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• Telluride High School graduation will be held high in the sky. School officials and Telluride Ski Resort in Colorado worked together to plan a safe social-distancing ceremony in the Telluride gondola. There will be a total of 66 mini-ceremonies where students and immediate family will travel in the gondola to the San Sophia station where students will be awarded their diploma.

• Attention chairlift enthusiasts! Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Colorado is auctioning off chairs for charity and selling others. The Pallavicini chairlift was retired after 42 years and four chairs will be auctioned off, the first chair will be auctioned from May 18 to 25^h with proceeds going to charity. The resort has also created an interest list where chairlift enthusiasts can pay $50 dollars, which also goes to charity, to be entered into a drawing to be one of the 100 people to purchase a chair for $2,500.

• This article explores how Table Mountain Aerial Cableway in Cape town became one of the most popular tourist attractions in Africa. The original system from 1929 was a wooden cable car with a tin roof that could carry 19 people up the summit in 10 minutes. After the system was replaced in 1997, the cable cars now have a full 360-degree rotational view and increased capacities.

• More systems continue to open or prepare for reopening around the world. Queenstown’s Skyline gondola welcomed hundreds of people on Saturday, May 16. Meanwhile, the Sea to Sky Gondola in Canada is undertaking health and safety measures to reopen May 22.