\t\t\tA clip captured on Fountain Ledge has left South Africans gasping, cheering and clutching their chests as a baby tahr worked up the courage to take the biggest jump of its tiny life.<\/p>\n
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Western Cape, South Africa (25 November 2025) \u2013 If you thought Table Mountain had shown you everything\u2026 think again. A new video has popped up of a tahr family doing death-defying parkour on Fountain Ledge.<\/p>\n
And yes\u2026 our collective legs went a little jelly.<\/p>\n
So\u2026 what exactly is a tahr?<\/p>\n
Himalayan tahrs are large mountain goats originally from Asia. They were introduced to the Cape many decades ago and, for reasons only they truly understand, decided that Table Mountain was the perfect spot to settle down and start a family. They\u2019re strong, incredibly agile, and oddly calm even when standing on cliff faces that look terrifying to the rest of us.<\/p>\n
Spotting one is rare. Spotting a whole family jumping across a rocky gap at the edge of a mountain? That\u2019s something else entirely.<\/p>\n
The clip, shared by Table Mountain Experience<\/a>, shows what looks like a tahr family perched, and I mean perched, on the literal edge of Fountain Ledge. One of the adults leaps across a rockfall with complete confidence. The second follows equally sure-footed.<\/p>\n Then comes the baby.<\/p>\n You can see the hesitation as the little one looks for another route. It shuffles. It thinks. It tries to sidestep. It looks back at where it came from. And then, with the kind of bravery we all wish we had on a Monday morning, it takes the enormous jump.<\/p>\n The comment section had feelings.<\/p>\n \u201cGosh, am I the only one that gasped when he jumped and then wanted to cry\ud83d\ude31\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAm I the only one who noticed the skrik mom got when the rock fell down the cliff\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMommy had to show him how it\u2019s done. Good one to the little guy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAm I the only one whose legs went jelly when he jumped?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHere an acknowledgement to the camera man \u2014 well done with that zoom and steady hand.\u201d<\/p>\n If a baby tahr can stand on the edge of Table Mountain, doubt everything for a moment, and still take the leap\u2026 well, perhaps we can face whatever feels a bit too big today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Source: Table Mountain Experience Or catch an episode of\u00a0Good Things with Brent Lindeque<\/a>\u00a0or our\u00a0Weekly Top 5<\/a>\u00a0below. The videos here are always changing, updated with the latest episodes from these two shows. Both are part of Good Things TV, created to bring South Africans balance at a time when the news can feel overwhelmingly negative. Our goal is simple: to remind you that there are still so many good things happening in our country \u2013 and to leave you feeling a little more proudly South African.<\/p>\n \t\t
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