On the Guiana Plateau in South America, a small rivulet Churun, is the highest waterfall in the world.His kingdom is surrounded by high mountains, turbulent rivers flowing through deep gorges and dense forests impassable - the wild man and underdeveloped corner of the globe.
waterfall has a height of 1054 meters, other sources claim that it is a bit smaller - 979 meters.The highest waterfall has several names.The most famous - Angel, which means "angel", and named it as the name of the discoverer - Juan Angel.The Indians call it Churun-Meru or Apemey, which translates as "girlish brow."
Europeans Angel opened recently.The fact that this miracle of nature - kilometer vertical flow of water - is located in a remote and very remote corners of our planet.The river flows through Churun plateau Auyan-Tepui (Devil's Mountain).Folded porous sandstones, the mountain rises to 2,600 meters above the jungle.The water of the river, steeply down the steep rock walls in a dense tropical forest, constitutes the highest waterfall in the world.
Pathfinder waterfall - adventurer
official opening took place at the beginning of the last century.At this time, we have to flash diamond rush in Venezuela.Numerous adventurers rushed to the impenetrable jungle.Juan Angel was one of them.On a small sports plane in 1935, he flew to the Auyan-tepui, hoping to find diamonds.
diamond deposits Angel failed to open, but he could see the highest waterfall and told the world about its existence.His plane crashed, had to make an emergency landing in the same area, which Conan Doyle described in his famous novel "The Lost World."Angel miraculously managed to get out of the impenetrable jungle, and get to the first village, he immediately reported openly.Since then, his name is written on all maps of the world, in the place where there is the highest waterfall of the world.
Lost World was made available to all
only fourteen years after the famous flight of Angel, in 1949, a group of American and Venezuelan surveyors with great difficulty managed to get to the waterfall.They had with machetes and axes to hack his way through a wild jungle, completely twisted vines.In the last 36 kilometers it was spent 19 days.Their efforts paid off completely when they have personally seen all the unforgettable beauty of the water column falls from a great height in a large lake at the foot of the plateau.
Village near Mount Devil is so difficult to pass that for a very long time to get it could only the most courageous researchers.In our time, the highest waterfall can see everyone.Local authorities were able to arrange for him hiking trails.By Angel can fly on a small lightweight helicopter or swim on the river in a canoe with a motor.Lovers of extreme sensations are given the opportunity to make flight on a hang glider, jumping from the edge of the plateau, and enjoy all the splendor of falling water from a height of bird flight.
