Mount Roraima
Mount Roraima is the highest of the table-top mountains of the Guiana Highlands (or Guayana Highlands). Roraima is a sandstone plateau, standing nearly 2,800 m high, and marks the dividing spot of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. It's in the southeastern corner of Venezuela's 30,000 km2 Canaima National Park. The table mountains of the park are considered some of the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back to the Pre-Cambrian Era, some 2 billion years ago.
Roraima is an imposing mountain, rising above the surrounding savannahs and forest. It is thought that the reports from early Victorian expeditions to the mountain inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write his classic adventure yarn, The Lost World, in 1912 - now made into countless films of varying quality. Mount Roraima was first ascended in 1884 by Everard Im Thurn and
