With cable cars soaring swiftly to the quarter-mile-high mountain ... It was at the foot of the Sugarloaf that Portuguese explorers founded the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1565.

Sarah Brown Standing high above Rio's bustling metropolis at 1,296 feet, Pão de Açúcar, or the Sugarloaf Mountain ... you can take a three-minute cable car ride up to Morro da Urca and then ...