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 ...

Discover Venezuela’s “islands above the rainforest”—115 ancient table-top mountains (tepui) rising hundreds to over a thousand meters from the Amazon’s edge. These sandstone mesas, many inside Canaima ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Independent was not involved in the creation of this sponsored content. Hidden in the far northeast of Venezuela, where the lush Amazon meets the vast Gran Sabana, stands one of Earth’s most ...

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 ...