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 ...

In the late sixteenth century, explorer Sir Walter Raleigh led a mission to Guyana in search of El Dorado. Many believe he was taken to Mount Roraima. Frustratingly for Raleigh, he was unable to climb ...

Why it's incredible: The mountain looks like a floating island from the sky. Mount Roraima is a plateau with near-vertical sides that sits on the triple border point between Brazil, Venezuela and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Climbing the Guyana face of Mount Roraima for the first time was an experience that will never be forgotten, according to two Akawaio men who are the first Guyanese on record to do so. Edward James, ...

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

A woman from Cumbria has become the first woman to complete one of the toughest climbing challenges in the world. Anna Taylor, from Windermere, climbed the 2,000ft (610m) sheer rock face of Mount ...

A montage of images of Mount Roraima capture the extraordinary mountain with its sheer sides rising above the rainforest of Guyana. Aerial views capture the magnificence of the mountain. There are ...

Mount Roraima is a plateau with near-vertical sides that sits on the triple border point between Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana ...