Discovering the ‘Lost World’ in Venezuela

Discovery: Porters travelling on the path heading towards Mount Roraima, located on the Venezuela-Brazil border.

Desolate and otherworldly, the mystical Mount Roraima draws thousands of visitors each year – but at a price.

Once impenetrable to all but the Pemon indigenous people, several thousand hikers a year now make the three-day trek across savannah, through rivers, under a waterfall and along a narrow path scaling the cliffs of Mount Roraima – a flat-topped mountain on the Venezuela-Brazil border that perplexed early explorers and inspiredThe Lost World novel.