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 ...

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 ...

MOUNT RORAIMA, Venezuela (Reuters) - 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 ...

Mount Roraima is a plateau with near-vertical sides that sits on the triple border point between Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana. The plateau is often encircled by a ring of clouds, which makes the ...

Explore the misty highlands of Roraima, a remote region at the tri-border of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana. This footage ...

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 ...

Leo Houlding making the first ascent of his new route up Mount Roraima in Guyana, pictured here on pitch 5 Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, ...

When friends and longtime climbing partners Kurt Albert, Holger Heuber and competitive climbing’s first superstar Stefan Glowacz embark on an expedition to Mount Roraima, a table mountain shrouded in ...

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