THE STORY

AUYANTEPUI

Mainly in pursuit of biological research, a series of other expeditions to the Tepuis followed: in 1974, I climbed Roraima to the summit from the southern side, and also climbed another huge "tepui" to the west called Auyantepui, the source of Angel Falls, the world's highest.

I returned to Auyantepui again in 1976. Then, in 1981, I climbed Kukenaam, a huge tepui close to Roraima that had only been climbed for the first time eighteen years earlier, in 1963 KUKENAAM from the north

In 1985, I made another international expedition, this time for the BBC, to skydive on to the tiny summit of Autana-tepui, an interesting and spectacular stack of isolated rock far to the west in the Amazonas area of Venezuela. During the course of these expeditions we had discovered yet more new species, and learned a lot about the mysterious, ancient tepuis.

Skydiving on to AUTANA 1985