"That mountain, Roraima, haunted me for forty years"
Sir David Attenborough
THE LOST WORLD PROJECT
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After an arduous expedition, Sir Everard Im Thurn finally scaled the summit of South America's Mount Roraima in 1884. A 'strange country of nightmares', it didn't contain the dinosaurs the Victorians had hoped for, but an eerie moonscape of carnivorous plants, walking frogs and screeching Oilbirds.
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In 2011, I worked on location as a cameraman with NGO Ibex Earth, filming un-described species and incredible landscapes on the summits of Roraima and adjacent Kukenan. The film was shown to a full house at the Royal Geographical Society on the 19th September 2011 and introduced by Sir Michael Palin.
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EXPEDITION IMAGES
Mount Roraima shortly after sunrise - Copyright Ben Macdonald 2011
