Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Mount Roraima

Mount Roraima is an incredible place beautiful country that is in Venezuela. This unique rock shaped like a flat surface such as a table that is in the cloud. The high 400 yards.

The only way to reach the top of the table is the roof by climbing the ladder track is already provided by the government of Venezuela. Another way that is not recommended is usually done by rock climbers. There rain fell almost every day, wash away the ivy plant on the roof. As a result, the roof of the mountain to be unique, because the flat surface like a table.

Mount Roraima became famous in 1912 when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a fiction novel called The Lost World. He performs the Roraima mountain climbing to explore in search of research dinosaurs and prehistoric plant species are believed to live isolated and unchanged for millions of years at the top of the mountain.

Conan-Doyle was inspired by British botanist Everard Im Thurn is on December 18, 1884 by Harry Perkins, they are the first to reach the summit of Mount Roraima. Im Thurn and Perkins is not the first European to see Mount Roraima, the first European who saw it was a German explorer Robert Schomburgk a scientist explorer area Britains Royal Society in 1838.

Im Thurn and Perkins climb Mount Roraima from the southeast to what is now called Im Thurn route, the only easiest way to reach the top. Im Thurn in the expedition had to fight hundreds of miles well past the river and forests and their wild dangerous beasts.

After Im Thurn and Perkins, a lot of British scientific expedition that came to collect and conduct research on the flora and fauna that exist in odd Mount Roraima and produced many new species that exist there. This mountain has been set in the list of world heritage sites.

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