The Lost Worlds Mountains of Venezuela (lecture by Stewart McPherson).
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- A lecture about the lost world mountains (tepuis or tepuyes) of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana by Stewart McPherson.
During this lecture, Stew accounts the story of discovery and exploration of the tepuis, and provides an overview of the biogeography, animals, plants and landscapes of these remarkable "lost world" mountains.
Subjects covered include the explorers Walter Raleigh, Robert Schomburgk, Richard Schomburgk, Everard Im Thurn, Mount Roraima, Jimmy Angel, Angel Falls, Heliamphora (pitcher plants), Drosera (sundews), iridescent-leaved plants, Stegolepis and more.
Edited by Rohan Holt ( Cloudbase Productions www.cloudbasepro.co.uk )
As a Venezuelan, I am truly impressed at how much you know about the Venezuelan tepuis and their dramatic and majestic beauty.
Were these giant tree stump?
This is the best thing I have watched on CZcams in years. Stewart you’re amazing, such an inspiring person.
absolutely! impressive and mind expanding lecture. many thanks to Stewart McPherson.
VENEZUELA BLESSED BY THE HAND OF GOD.
Islands in the Sky... Absolutely Amazing... Wonderful Lecture... Much appreciated...
What an exquisite video! Such a joy to have tepuis explained and illustrated in such a lively, intelligent manner. This is why I watch CZcams. Thank you!
Stewart...this is incredible! What an amazing place!!! Thanks so much for sharing your discoveries of the tepuis and the incredible diversity of our earthly realm.
Love love love this documentary and look forward to more. These have fascinated me for years. Deeply appreciate your work & hungry for more. Thank you.
More lectures please, this was a delight
pure delight to watch!
Thank you for this beautiful virtual tour!🌅🌅🌅👍👍👍
I wish there were more documentaries on these plateaus. Actual exploration with video. There's almost nothing on these on CZcams.
Yeah... Where is Bear Grylls when we need him
I wish the same, but let's keep it a secret so they don't get commercialized
This was one of the coolest nature documentaries In a way there was so much fantastic content I could just watch it again its so unbelievable what’s hiding on the top it’s like mars, thank you so much for travelling to these places and showing things that the internet and tv will never do justice, you absolutely hit the nail right on the head with this one like you do every time, had to share the wonder with others, this was awe inspiring such an unbelievable world we live in just the layers in the ecosystems its unprecedented and then you add cave systems and it just all adds up to some Thing from your wildest fantasies something you read in a book from an old library. Again one of the best nature docs ive ever seen
You, sir, are now the god of travel video and purveyor of critical information for starving minds. Thank you.
I have read so much on these tepuis and bought your book a few years ago, but never tire of seeing and learning more and more about them. I practically "collect" tepuy expedition videos and thank you for this idea to brighten us up in the lockdown. It is very much appreciated!
Show us your collection!
This is such an exciting area of the world. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
this was an absolutely fantastic and stunning lecture and tour of the tepuis of Venezuela !! thank you so much! my imagination is soaring like it hasn't in a long time. greatly inspired and have added one more place to my bucket list in life.
That was a fantastic lecture/documentary, I enjoyed it immensely.
This was incredibly beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing this - I am now thoroughly captivated by these absolute wonders, and had so much fun learning from your travels.
Thank you for sharing this very spectacular place❤
That was so interesting! Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for educating us.
I read somewhere that these plateau's may be tree stumps from thousands and thousands of decade's ago.
Thanks for the video. It somehow takes us away from the 21st century. At 5:57... They look like tree stumps to me. Spectacular. Thanks.
I greatly enjoyed this well presented lecture. Thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge on this accessible platform.
( Another wonderful video of this site is, ‘Tepuis of the Venezuelan Guiana Shield’, on channel Brad Wilson. )
I love learning and I am having trouble finding stuff I know as little about as the tepui. This is so great.
Really enjoyable and enlightening. I didn’t even know these mountains existed until seeing your video. Truly amazing and stunning! Thanks very much for your time in putting this together. Much appreciated!
Wonderful Lecture Stewart. Loved every bit of this. Hope its not ruined by tourism.
Just discovered your channel today. Fantastic geographic and geological information about a mysterious part of the world that has captivated me for decades. Thank you.
absolutly amazing , thanks a lot . 5 thumbs up
Just found. Great overview and photos. Thanks.
Thank you so much. Blessings 🎉🎉🎉
I agree with the comments below. So interesting. No doubt I will watch it again!!
wow. You are an explorer in the truest sense of the word. And also in the truest sense of exploration.
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing!
FANTASTIC!!!! Thank YOU!!!!
This is awesome.
Fantastic lecture!! I am looking forward to more!
Thank you so very much for this . Enjoyed it hugely .
lovely presentation and what an amazing place
So well done ty! Really fascinating! There are pitcher plants here in Alabama USA on my old college campus growing in a wooded area. This video was great at showing the diversity & magnificence there! Wow! 🤩
Great video, amazing that you can still be a real-life explorer these days.
Had a paperback copy of I M Thurn’s “ Among the Indians of British Guiana” in the 1970,s and was able to see a film of some Brits - poetry spouting nutters! - who climbed ‘The Prow’ of Roraima. A Pittsburg, USA based team climbed the Angel Falls face and others have been up Balls Pyramid in the Pacific. People do these things.
You cover so much so very well. Geo history, botany, zoology,…; the smaller aspects count greatly given time.
As a poor student on my own I only got to an ‘ox bow’ of the Mighty Essequibo with some old school macro photo gear for some weeks. Were I young and a lottery winner, I’d tag along to these worlds and s e Asian limestone. Well done.
The best video I have seen about the tepuis. A very complete explanation of physical geography. What I think of all the good things that detracts from your work, is the explanation you make of the economy of Venezuela. Although our contemporary civilization is just an instant in eternity, it would be good to expand more on the subject or leave it out. Venezuela, like many nations of the continent and of the world, suffers the oppression of colonial domination. Venezuela's economic crisis is some way a product of the voracity of the British crown. At present its aggression is more clearly exposed and we can have little confidence in it or its subjects. Venezuelan gold remains in the Bank of London in a clear act of modern pirating. And I know that not everyone there agrees with that. I tell you this with the confidence of knowing that colonial societies are not totally homogeneous either, and in them there are people with broader horizons and they are not so heartless before the rest of humanity.
Greetings from Caracas, Venezuela, blessed by the hand of God, and where the economy is improving.🥂🍻 cheers!
Thank you so much for creating and sharing this, it was truly inspiring. There's something wonderful that speaks to the inner 10-year old in me, about knowing that there are still unexplored places left in the world.
you do great work Stewart
É verdade! O Salto Angel é o mais alto do mundo com quase 1000 m de altura. Só não sei se fica para o lado do Brasil, Venezuela ou Guiana. A flora e a fauna são muito ricas em espécies distintas. Congratulations! Thank's for this vídeo!
Fica para o lado do Venezuela
Fascinating lecture for sure. Love all of your videos. Thank you so much❗️
Nice Video and pictures. Venezuela was a country since the Independence 1811. Jimmy Angles plane was recovered in 1970, it was restored and is display in front of Ciudad Bolivar airport
Thank you for the fascinating lecture!
Wow, that was great!
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Stewart! I think I am now committed to visiting the tepuis at least once in my lifetime.
That was lovely, and fascinating.
That was amazing. What a wonderful adventure to see these places. Thanks
Fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing!!!!
Excellent, thank you!
Damn.. im hooked.. heard about this place once, and now i cant stop looking things up about it...
Wonderful video. Such a beautiful area. I wish I could visit it. Thanks for posting.
Thank you so much for making this!
Thank you! This was fascinating to watch and listen to.
Very interesting! Thank you!!
bit late to this, but thanks for putting up such an fascinating video! Somehow watching lots of videos about cave diving bought me to your video! What a place, cant imagine how amazing it must be to stand up on one of these Tepuis!
Great lecture.
Thank you Stewart, I very much enjoyed this talk. I wish I had a few million to fund a full documentary.
Amazing plantas
that was an amazing talk
This is so cool! I'd heard of these mountains before but had no idea about all of this. I learned a ton from this. Subscribed
Wow. That was a very good introduction.
Phenomenal lecture. 👏🏽
This was extremely interesting very well laid out and the plant life pictures are fantastic 💯💯💯❤❤❤👍
Fascinaring lecture of one of the most interesting places in the world. The most amazing thing is that there is still so much to discover in this very ancient part of the world. Hoping that the situation in Venezuela improves to the point of allowing further investigation and discovery.
On another note, it is Interesting how the Schomburgk expedition had such an effect beyond its original scope and still till today afects the delimitation of the area.
Thanks for producing this fascinating video for all to access this wonderful information of my beloved country.
This is an absolutely fascinating video about something I was previously unaware. Bravo!
Riveting. A splendid narrative.
would love to hear more of your expeditions in SE Asia. Very nice lecture, greetings from Denmark
Hi Stew thanks for showing this great informative video ,i remember when you did theses trips and coming down to our CP society to give a talk on this amazing place, wish i had been able to go back then ,Spot Cullen told me how great it was , thanks again for putting is vid up for us , to understand more of this area . cheers
incredible thank you
Amazing Thank you very much
I'm a bit late, but I just realized the movie Up is located in the tepuis. The labyrinths and falls gave me deja vu of that movie and sure enough when I looked it up its true!
Thank you for this amazing trove of educational and entertaining information that details the actual subject. So many CZcams videos about this place are merely narcissistic tourists interested only in documenting personal accomplishments, replete with 360 degree, panoramic selfie shots of the view from the summits ("notice me world, look, in my hand is the famous rare frog..."). They rarely offer any detail of the ramp, the climb, interesting geographic features, etc, etc. They seem to be oblivious as to just how awesome this place truely is.
Soory about that rant, but I think you'll understand what I'm saying, and again thank you.
Wonderful so interesting
É um lugar realmente muito bonito, com lindas plantas, inclusive as Nepenthes.
Penso que nepenthes esta nas ilhas de Borneo e Filipinas?
ooooh... interesting.... I'll be honest, but, when I saw it was mostly stills, I kind of jumped bits, but everywhere I stopped was utterly fascinating, so I've bookmarked this to go back through and watch it properly when I've got more time. I'm looking forward to that.
Thanks for that
You are great dude 😍😇
Awesome documentary 👏 Please more . And can you documentary and explanation of aroids and where they all comes from ? And the mutation on how each becomes different ?
thanks i learned lots!
Very nice..iloveit..feels like i was in that place also...👍👍👍
Thank you. That was stunning, and a bit frightening. I can imagine not wanting to approach the edge of one of those Teupuis, but being drawn over nevertheless.
I crave traveling to these types of places
Thanks Stewart, for your work on Mount Roraima. For the record, Venezuela did already exist in the XIX Century. Sadly, the political circumstances at the time- recently regained Independence from Spain and then the internal Civil War that followed- gave space to adventurers and "scientists" like Schongberk to "re-write" the limits of my country. Those limits were already agreed and respected. The Esequibo River on the East was set as its righteous border. Up to date, this is still a contentious territorial claim we are still fighting to win.
Hahaha i was waiting for this video, its an amazing area!!
very coo[,,nice job,
Marvelous narration I have enjoyed it so much. However there is something to correct. By the time Schomburgk reaches the foothills of Roraima (1835), Venezuela was already an independient country. Much more it was when Im Thurn achieved to climb the ledge...
Interesting.
Beautifull Book 👍🏻😊 Can you present Fiel Guide to The Pitcher Plant ? Pls... 😉
what a magical, weird place...
Beautiful, magical and riveting. Unfortunately almost ruined by the amount of disruptive ads.
Thank you for this, fascinating, wonderful documentary !
Are they really sorcpions on the Tepuy ? I'm surprised
with the tech we have today there should be researchers all over these things.
I would be a little worried about getting stranded up there.
The lost giant trees of venezuela 🌳🌲
I'm very impressed by the video, about Venezuela have you ever heard of an alchemist cave?
Drink! 🍷🍸🍹🍺🥃
Every time he says; "Epic." 😁👍
Edit;
_(Or, whenever he mentions that he was on expedition there ten years ago, but that he's also been back a couple times more recently lol either way. 😇✌)_
I love my little island in the Caribbean but I admire the beauty of these heavenly Venezuelan plateaus. Just amazing‼️ 💪🏾😎🤙🏾
Hi Stewart, you mentioned you had spent some time in south east asia. Have you been to the similar structures in borneo island (Indonesian, Kalimantan)? near to Samarinda? I flew over once and was amazed to see Cliffs rising from the jungle that went on for miles and miles. on the inside of the cliffs were limestone pinnacles, I am sure very difficult to penetrate this area. And very little info of anybody travelling there. Would love to hear your thoughts on that
Petrified giant tree stump that were cut down before the flood.