My first sighting of this prehistoric Tepuy (Table-topped mountain) Mt Roraima, came in November 2012 while enroute via Cessna plane to Orinduik Falls nestled on the Ireng River which borders Guyana ...
Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. In the Guiana Highlands in southeast Venezuela, a series of mesas ...
A mystic, flat-topped mountain on the Venezuela-Brazil border that perplexed 19th-century explorers and inspired "The Lost World" novel is attracting ever more modern-day adventurers. Once ...
An international team led by Leo Houlding and including Wilson Cutbirth, Waldo Etherington, Dan Howard, Matt Pycroft, Anna Taylor has climbed a new route up Mt Roraima in Guyana. British mountaineer ...
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The tree-ferns collected on the Kew Expedition to Mt Roraima in 1978, and on the first Kako River Expedition in 1979, are described, including the new species Cyathea akawaiorum, also other species ...
THIS place is cut off from civilisation, and it’s like nowhere else on the planet. Prehistoric creatures and labyrinths of stone pinnacles are among what lies inside the “real Jurassic Park”. Welcome ...