Jul 12, 2014
The real Lost World
The real Lost World
Not far from the Equator and marking the divide between the Amazon Basin and the Orinoco River valley, flat-topped Mount Roraima looks almost like a huge stone block carelessly discarded in the rainforest by a giant bricklayer. First seen by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1596, it wasn’t climbed by a Westerner until 1884, when British explorer Everard im Thurn (later to become governor of Fiji) took a…
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