To take another famous waterfall as a comparison ... in a sticky spot after his plane was damaged during a landing on a tepui, Auyán-Tepuí (or Devil’s Mesa), in 1937. It is during this ...

and fractured by hundreds of waterfalls. Some have yet to feel the tread of human feet. In Conan Doyle's novel, adventure-scientists discover a tepui inhabited by dinosaurs, apelike "missing links ...