This is the World's Largest Flat Mountain |
Maybe you dibayangan entire mountain on earth certainly has a sharp peak,Mount Roraima is unless ya, shaped like a triangle, but have you ever seen a flat mountain? For those who have never seen a flat mount, please see photos and reviews of Mount Roraima is strange but true following.
Mount Roraima is an incredible place beautiful country that is in Venezuela. This uniquely shaped rock as flat as a table surface 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 it is clean of any and 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 and dinosaurs prehistoric plant species, which are believed to live isolated and unchanged for millions of years in the top of the mountain.
Conan-Doyle works inspired by British botanist Everard Im Thurn is on December 18, 1884 by Harry Perkins reached the top of the mountain, they are the first to reach the summit of Mount Roraima. On the other hand Im Thurn and Perkins was not the first European to see Mount Roraima, the first European who saw it was a German explorer Robert Schomburgk in 1838, he was a scientist and explorer of the area Britains Royal Society. He delivered a lecture in his expedition when it was attended by Conan-Doyle. which later inspired him to do the exploration to the mountain Roraima.
Im Thurn and Perkins climb Mount Roraima from the southeast which is now called Im Thurn route, the only easiest way to reach the top is through the southeast / route Im Thurn. the expedition, Im Thurn had to fight a distance of hundreds of kilometers, he was also the rivers and forests of wild and dangerous beasts.
After Im Thurn and Perkins conquer the mountain Roraima, in the following years many scientific expedition from England who came to this mountain, they collect and do research on the flora and fauna that exist in a strange Roraima mountain, they discovered many new species that exist there . Because of its uniqueness, this mountain is set in the list of world heritage sites.
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