The Lost World - Mount Roraima

Mount Roraima is one the most mysterious and alluring mountains in the world. An enormous flat-topped mesa, its sheer cliffs rise from one of the most remote areas of the Amazon rain forest. It is entirely appropriate that Conan Doyle used Roraima as the inspiration for the novel Lost World, a tale of modern dinosaurs. The mountain is a vast heart-shaped plateau, with the area of the rolling summit area about 50 or 20 sq. miles. It lies in three countries, but Venezuela controls over 80% of the summi