1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000
The Lost World, Canaima National Park.

2
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:14,000
The Canaima National Park stretches across the Guyana Highlands in southeastern Venezuela.

3
00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,000
More than 100 flat top table mountains can be found here.

4
00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:37,000
The Angel Falls cascade down a 2,560-meter-high table mountain.

5
00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000
The 979-meter waterfall is the world's tallest.

6
00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:51,000
The water turns to spray before it reaches the foot of the mountain and provides moisture to the tropical forest.

7
00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:58,000
The Guyana Highlands were a lake at the time South America was connected to the African continent.

8
00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:05,000
The mantle beneath rose some 200 million years ago, resulting in the elevation of the lake floor.

9
00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:12,000
The formation of table mountains is a result of the erosion of softer rocks by wind and rain.

10
00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:18,000
A German explorer named Robert Schoenberg visited in 1835.

11
00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,000
He was fascinated by the table mountains, known locally as tepui.

12
00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000
His effort to climb one of the tepui was hampered by its steep cliffs.

13
00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:35,000
It was only in 1884, almost 50 years later, that a team reached the top of a table mountain.

14
00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:42,000
A British expedition team led by Everard M. Thurn succeeded in reaching the highest peak,

15
00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000
Uroraima.

16
00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,000
This is the view at the top.

17
00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000
There are curiously shaped rocks formed over mountains.

18
00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000
The rocks have a unique shape.

19
00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000
The rocks have a unique shape.

20
00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000
This is the view at the top.

21
00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:08,000
There are curiously shaped rocks formed over millions of years as land was gradually eroded.

22
00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000
Endemic species can be found here.

23
00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,000
High humidity helps moss to grow and in turn the moss becomes a bed for other plants to flourish.

24
00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,000
Plants have evolved to adjust to an environment where there are only rocky surfaces.

25
00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,000
The British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dubbed this place the Lost World.

26
00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:45,000
The Guiana Highlands, with its mysterious beauty, continues to capture our imagination.

27
00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,000
The Guiana Highlands, with its mysterious beauty, continues to capture our imagination.