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  • @haxyquinn
    @haxyquinn 6 лет назад +104

    Those "amerindians" are the Pemón tribe They had lived for centuries in these areas. And you need them not only because the know everything about the terrain but because you are NOT allowed into the Canaima Park unless you have a Pemón guide, it's the government's regulation and the tribe's regulations in an effort to preserve the Tepuyes. As they live there they control what happens in the park I've been in the Roraima Tepuy and in the Auyantepuy for a few weeks at the time. The pemones are amazingly skilled people and very kind people.

    • @matiastorres9849
      @matiastorres9849 5 лет назад +1

      I kinda wanted to know why he called them that way, bastante molesto.

    • @saaraphoenix
      @saaraphoenix 5 лет назад +1

      Thank you for this comment

    • @TheDrepirela
      @TheDrepirela 4 года назад +6

      Can't expect an ignorant foreigner to even bother looking up information on the people owning the land they are visiting and are the only ones that can take them and bring them back. Discovery is the worst evil.

    • @danielawetzel2801
      @danielawetzel2801 2 года назад +4

      And they have names too! I was watching focus about Everest and they always said Sherpas saved this or that but they don’t say the names. They need to stop believing they are better than actually the owners of the mountains. Without them there is not expedition or this video. I hope they now how stupid they look saying this guy instead his name. I’m pretty sure their ancestors discovered all that species before they believed they did. God have mercy!!

    • @aztronomy7457
      @aztronomy7457 Год назад

      @@danielawetzel2801cry more

  • @525Lines
    @525Lines 8 лет назад +72

    It makes sense. The abandoned elevated subway tracks in New York City were found to be home to plant species not seen in New York for ages.

    • @tzDub92
      @tzDub92 8 лет назад +3

      such as?

    • @Leponce37
      @Leponce37 8 лет назад +2

      interested in learning as well

    • @525Lines
      @525Lines 8 лет назад +6

      The stretch of elevated track is called the High Line and it's a park now. Just google it.

    • @faizanrana2998
      @faizanrana2998 4 года назад +2

      I think a forest isolated in such a remote area for 10s of millions of years, is a bit different to a NY abandoned subway line. Dont you?

  • @Ntmoffi
    @Ntmoffi 8 лет назад +48

    Amazing. Cool that he could get down there and back out at the age of 71.

  • @KPL400
    @KPL400 6 лет назад +7

    Just climbed Roraima two weeks ago. The sheer mind blowing experience on top of the Tepui sandwiched between the awful situation of the people exiting Venezuela at the border between Venezuela and Brazil. Nearly 1.5 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2014 mostly into Colombia and Brazil but more recently into Guyana. Half the population of Venezuela are starving....what my group observed was the tip of an iceberg of a massive largely unreported humanitarian crisis.

    • @ashantimatthias110
      @ashantimatthias110 5 лет назад

      This Guyanese territory I don't know why Americans keep saying this is Venezuelian mt its not its located in Guyana the country of the Jim Jones saga stop giving the world wrong information

    • @lifeisgood3087
      @lifeisgood3087 4 года назад +2

      @@ashantimatthias110 are you serious? Did you pass geography in school? dude, did you not hear the guy this was entirely in Venezuela? 85% of this beautiful place is in Venezuela, where all the filming took place.

  • @elji02
    @elji02 8 лет назад +16

    Venezuela is such a beautiful place.. it's paradise.. we even have the tallest waterfall in the world.. it's breath taking...

    • @tauceti8060
      @tauceti8060 7 лет назад +1

      elji02 Remember that the mountain is shared between Brazil and Guyana too.

    • @stereotypical8887
      @stereotypical8887 7 лет назад

      Alpha581 exactly, mount roraima

    • @sebastianastorga6702
      @sebastianastorga6702 6 лет назад

      The tallest waterfal isn't in Roraima Tepui, is farther to the north

    • @haxyquinn
      @haxyquinn 6 лет назад +1

      Alpha581 No, The Roraima is shared between Brazil and Guyana (that's is legally still part of Venezuela btw) The Angel's fall is in another Tepuy (Auyantepuy) That's is completely inside Venezuelan Territory

    • @lifeisgood3087
      @lifeisgood3087 4 года назад +2

      @@tauceti8060 yes, but all the filming is in the Venezuela territory.

  • @blocpartyrocker
    @blocpartyrocker 6 лет назад +6

    This is one of the best videos on RUclips. Thank you.

  • @reinaflores575
    @reinaflores575 3 года назад +4

    Venezuela cuanto te quiero!

  • @Butterflybreakfast
    @Butterflybreakfast 8 лет назад +14

    I enjoyed this presentation. Thank you

  • @budfoon
    @budfoon 3 года назад +2

    That Nat Geo issue, that article! I made it up Roraima in 1998, a couple weeks after a total solar eclipse that skimmed northern Venezuela. The summit of Roraima is as amazing as any video - and accessible by foot. And my trip there was inspired by that one article. Thanks Nat Geo, for having inspired many of my amazing trips around the world!

  • @starcrib
    @starcrib 5 лет назад +5

    Synnott is spectacular, a real adventurer and special person in the quest for scientific evidence. well done.

  • @shiroineko13
    @shiroineko13 7 лет назад +4

    Brilliant video. Loved the whole story telling and bit with Bruce in the sinkhole.

  • @albertptran
    @albertptran 8 лет назад +18

    This sounds like an awesome adventure

  • @birendersinghsachan182
    @birendersinghsachan182 6 лет назад +2

    Awesome job

  • @elmixo5010
    @elmixo5010 7 лет назад +8

    Venezuela, my lovely homeland.

  • @goatog9443
    @goatog9443 2 года назад +1

    It's the local that do the hardest part and they get to tell the story of heroism. Vulture culture

  • @danielrk8
    @danielrk8 5 лет назад +2

    Very interesting stuff! Thanks guys!

  • @ADK117
    @ADK117 8 лет назад +24

    Looks exactly like the paradise in UP

    • @jeerardoh
      @jeerardoh 8 лет назад +1

      it's because they are. here, look for the 22-minute video under "Making Of": www.pixar.com/features_films/UP

    • @faizanrana2998
      @faizanrana2998 4 года назад

      India is a shithole

  • @rickysukhi
    @rickysukhi 7 лет назад +2

    perfect narration !

  • @albertptran
    @albertptran 8 лет назад +4

    Post more adventures like this

  • @Polymathically
    @Polymathically 8 лет назад +7

    Fascinating. I wish I could see this in person, but I'm nowhere near skilled enough of a climber to try that.

    • @deborahlynnxyz
      @deborahlynnxyz 3 года назад

      On other videos they say there is a helicopter and a plane that can be hired to take you up.

  • @fffffashion6155
    @fffffashion6155 8 лет назад +6

    This is amazing!! makes me want to watch the documentary

    • @alphaadhito
      @alphaadhito 8 лет назад +2

      Watch Steve Backshall climbing the Upuigma-tepui. Mind-blowing :-o

    • @fffffashion6155
      @fffffashion6155 8 лет назад +1

      +Alpha Adhito wow thanks for the recommendation! will check it later

  • @lassoatrain
    @lassoatrain 4 года назад +5

    Ever since I learned of the tepuis rock islands as a kid over 50 years ago I have always wanted to visit one and discover something no one had ever seen before. Or find gold and jem stones. But that is what makes them so special .I imagine there is none that has not been explored by now. Pretty amazing a piece of the planet as it was millions of years ago ,that's different then frozen in time like fossils .this is alive.

  • @saaraphoenix
    @saaraphoenix 5 лет назад +2

    The kind of adventure my soul craves. Lucky to hike in tropical forests almost every weekend

  • @ish6978
    @ish6978 8 лет назад +3

    This was very enjoyable.

  • @dodecaheathenblue8132
    @dodecaheathenblue8132 5 лет назад +2

    Greatest story ever...Amazing -!!!

  • @Anonymoose
    @Anonymoose 8 лет назад +5

    Fascinating story!

  • @moflyboyblanquito541
    @moflyboyblanquito541 8 лет назад +5

    I would love so much to go on one of those expeditions.

  • @spaceUniverse2012
    @spaceUniverse2012 5 лет назад

    For those that say Evolution is a theory, and its NOT, this proves the intricacies of evolution in action over thousands of years between a species based on adaptability and producing in different environments and populations.

  • @anggaraditya7642
    @anggaraditya7642 8 лет назад +5

    "Gotta cath em all" to the whole new level

  • @sean16hall3
    @sean16hall3 Год назад

    This feels like extreme Pokémon hunters

  • @Evantures
    @Evantures 2 года назад +2

    This is incredible 👏 hope to go there someday

  • @gawayne1374
    @gawayne1374 7 лет назад

    Totally in my bucket list

  • @tsfcancerman
    @tsfcancerman 5 лет назад +3

    Send him to norway where he can do "Kjerag", " Preikestolen", "lysefjorden", "møre og romsdal" if he only wants to climb

  • @dasboot6935
    @dasboot6935 5 лет назад +1

    The one thing or is it a virtue, . . . . that mankind has been endowed with is the will to never stop exploring and or learning about everything that can be explored or learned. If there was a way to explore the outside of our universe someone would do it.

  • @alwproductions2208
    @alwproductions2208 7 лет назад +2

    This is amazing

  • @Elsanta666
    @Elsanta666 3 года назад

    He talk about hes experience..more so about the species which is why im here for

  • @barry7608
    @barry7608 4 года назад

    Thanks so much great story, insane skills

  • @paul-mw6pc
    @paul-mw6pc 8 лет назад +1

    wow great story!

  • @abelleba5750
    @abelleba5750 8 лет назад +2

    this is such an inspiring video please, tell me more

  • @TsukuneASMG
    @TsukuneASMG 8 лет назад +4

    What great guys :) Very interesting

  • @prasanthp2008
    @prasanthp2008 5 лет назад

    I love this spirit !!!

  • @SpreadTheTruthUSA
    @SpreadTheTruthUSA 3 года назад +1

    The amazon is like another world.

  • @rogerchung7699
    @rogerchung7699 3 года назад

    Amazing

  • @kylelaw7210
    @kylelaw7210 7 лет назад +16

    Why did they walk through the jungle instead of just rappelling down from the top?

  • @stephaniec.4384
    @stephaniec.4384 8 лет назад +3

    Wow. I'm hopelessly jealous.

  • @anainthewild
    @anainthewild 2 года назад +3

    The "Amerindian" people he speaks of are the Pemón people. They have a name, history, and culture that is uniquely their own. To mislabel your guide who made this success possible is incredibly rude. The Pemón people are stewards of that land, and have been since time immemorial. It is clear whose territory you are on when you enter the park, so the presenter has no excuse for misnaming his guides.

  • @OzGeologyOfficial
    @OzGeologyOfficial 7 лет назад

    0.09 - WOW.

  • @JasonJowett
    @JasonJowett 5 лет назад +1

    dang those photos with mile long drops make me dizzy and chirn my guts, even before I looked at the first picture

  • @lezchislett51
    @lezchislett51 14 дней назад

    Yes Paul Zahl of National Geographic and me dad GT Chislett made a climb to the top 84 years ago they took the easier way up in the book To the Lost World. They did find the giant ants they were looking for. Chiz

  • @saturn724
    @saturn724 8 лет назад +4

    i was hoping they might find an undiscovered underground paradise with dozens of unseen creatures

    • @merk9569
      @merk9569 5 лет назад +1

      @Dan Torrino They probably did but it will take years to document the plants and animals of the area and how they are related to the species found at the top and bottom of the tepui. They have only scratched the surface.

  • @noonoo991
    @noonoo991 8 лет назад

    Is this the full video ?

  • @Hazel-rah
    @Hazel-rah 7 лет назад +5

    Does anyone feel like it ruins the magic and mystery of the place if it is studied by humans?

    • @stentorcoeruleus4835
      @stentorcoeruleus4835 7 лет назад +5

      ItsYaBoy I think the magic lies in discovery

    • @karlh4718
      @karlh4718 7 месяцев назад

      It only ruins it when other humans go there that dont respect the animals an then it would be ruined but not many people will find it lol

  • @ADDeeJay
    @ADDeeJay 6 лет назад +2

    My god, the vegetation is all agave. It's like climbing through swords. The pictures on your slides are just full of them.

  • @incognito4195
    @incognito4195 8 лет назад +3

    thats actually mount roraima in guyana, south america

    • @carlosmitchell6543
      @carlosmitchell6543 6 лет назад +4

      Incognito mount Roraima is located in Venezuelan 85% of it the other small portion is shared between Brazil and Guyana. They were exploring the Venezuelan section

  • @claredegroff1491
    @claredegroff1491 5 лет назад +1

    When you said the 1 species was only separated by a few thousand years. That wouldn't be around 12000 years by any chance would it ?

  • @Lilblakyessj408
    @Lilblakyessj408 8 лет назад +3

    That is just kool 👍🏻✌🏻️

  • @Nicolasm15inze
    @Nicolasm15inze 8 лет назад +4

    This is Monte Roraima, and it is in frontier Roraima Brazil and Venezuela, not only Venezuela

    • @incognito4195
      @incognito4195 8 лет назад +5

      nope its in guyana not brazil

    • @cesagvplay
      @cesagvplay 7 лет назад +1

      Nicolas Oliveira pero la mayoría esta en vzla , i think 85% of the tepui

    • @Nicolasm15inze
      @Nicolasm15inze 7 лет назад +1

      But 15% is something, and the Montain is acessibility from Brazil too. Is one information more to your books . Thank You!

    • @tauceti8060
      @tauceti8060 7 лет назад +6

      Nicolas Oliveira Roraima is shared between Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela But the majority is in Venezuela.

    • @Nicolasm15inze
      @Nicolasm15inze 7 лет назад +1

      Yes, now I agree

  • @Ploglow
    @Ploglow 5 лет назад +1

    cool story

  • @3Quetzalli
    @3Quetzalli 8 лет назад +6

    They're not "amerindians". They're probably pemones. Either way, it's good that they acknowledged their participation in the expedition.

  • @10madbananas
    @10madbananas 8 лет назад +1

    At one point, This all sounded like a D&D story to me.

  • @bomaite1
    @bomaite1 4 года назад +1

    This is probably a stupid comment, but wouldn't it have been much easier to descend onto that rock face from above rather than climb up from below? What were you expecting to find at the base of a rain forest cliff that has waterfalls shooting off of it everywhere? Of course it would be wet and decaying vegetation at a dangerously steep angle. You are very lucky to be alive yet. Rappeling from above you would be there in a second. Am I overlooking something?

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 6 лет назад +1

    The slime could be a cure for cancer:)

  • @jkbc
    @jkbc 3 года назад

    It was so hard to get up, how about going down?

  • @Poshodenero
    @Poshodenero 5 лет назад +3

    So wait a minute... I can see rock climbing as a hobby, but as a biologist, pioneer, explorer and etc why are they not just using a helicopter? If the purpose is discovery isn't time invaluable? Just my thoughts...

  • @carthius
    @carthius 8 лет назад +4

    Meanwhile im sitting here thinking... I wonder what kind of pokemon he could have found if he had pokemon Go...

    • @paulgarcia2887
      @paulgarcia2887 8 лет назад

      Nothing because pokemon go doesn't have any pokemon spawn in that area. At least not yet

  • @juanibarra4123
    @juanibarra4123 8 лет назад

    Cool

  • @jayali4369
    @jayali4369 3 года назад

    You think anyone ever went down to the middle part n got lost n just had to survive n live there

  • @柠檬味苹果
    @柠檬味苹果 8 лет назад

    嗯,说的好有道理

  • @Pveal79
    @Pveal79 5 лет назад

    I'd be scared to climb back down

  • @Alan-gi2ku
    @Alan-gi2ku 4 года назад

    They are in the Guianan shield not the Amazon.

  • @warefairsoda
    @warefairsoda Год назад

    And I thought Valley girl was extinct!

  • @bikeseekho-Delhi
    @bikeseekho-Delhi 6 лет назад

    Any place which is not discover by National Geography?

  • @trulyinfamous
    @trulyinfamous 7 лет назад +1

    This guy kind of looks like my 8th grade teacher.

  • @RandomChannel-xt6dl
    @RandomChannel-xt6dl 8 лет назад

    By reading the title I thought it was a Pokemon GO related video

  • @hugoreyes9137
    @hugoreyes9137 5 лет назад +2

    These guy is funny😅😅😅

  • @vernoncarpenterjr6213
    @vernoncarpenterjr6213 5 лет назад

    Those giant rocks are actually petrified tree stumps ,as giant trees were in anteduluvian times

    • @getredytagetredy
      @getredytagetredy 5 лет назад

      Vernon Carpenterjr ...They. Are remnant biology of Titan Giants ...with Human D. NA...check out Roger Spurr and MUD FOSSIL University for a life changing event...

    • @vernoncarpenterjr6213
      @vernoncarpenterjr6213 5 лет назад

      @@getredytagetredy many of mountains across the flat earth are indeed petrified giants of gen 6. There are also remnants of giant mile high trees, as the giant trunk in this video.

    • @horacegentleman3296
      @horacegentleman3296 Год назад

      Take your meds

  • @wiandryadiwasistio2062
    @wiandryadiwasistio2062 5 лет назад

    12:01 *wheek wheek* somebody opened a fridge

  • @tgozaer6248
    @tgozaer6248 8 лет назад +7

    he kinda sound like wildcat

  • @Sirmac613
    @Sirmac613 6 лет назад +1

    It was once a giant tree that was cut down bye the giants.- The Book of Enoch.

  • @rene9244
    @rene9244 8 лет назад +3

    Is that the rock on UP

    • @jeerardoh
      @jeerardoh 8 лет назад +1

      yUP... here, look for the 22-minute video under "Making Of": www.pixar.com/features_films/UP

  • @charliechetram4137
    @charliechetram4137 3 года назад

    It is in up

  • @1light4love
    @1light4love 4 года назад +3

    only wish Bruce didn't hafta ziploc them poor frogs to slice n. dice em.... specially not all four. poor lil dudes were having the best life down there.
    until humans came along and called everything theirs for the taking. 🙄

  • @MisCCY130
    @MisCCY130 Год назад

    i hope you guys paid edward very well!!

  • @romenpremsook4024
    @romenpremsook4024 4 года назад +1

    This is my beautiful country Guyana

    • @lifeisgood3087
      @lifeisgood3087 4 года назад +2

      Dude, did you hear the guy say VENEZUELA? Only 10% is in Guyana, 85% is in Venezuela where all the filming took place.

    • @manuelmacias2416
      @manuelmacias2416 3 года назад

      Guyana no tiene nada ahi. Esa parte es el esequibo venezolano. Insurpa algo que no les pertenecen

    • @stivenzon.bolivar
      @stivenzon.bolivar Год назад +1

      Es 100% Venezuela 🇻🇪

  • @ItsFrenzy26
    @ItsFrenzy26 4 года назад

    What you think of as mountains and rocks were mostly living things at a distant time point
    Either from trees/plants and animals, some of them ''giant''
    The tree's were cut down that's why many have flat tops... The rivers etc. and precious metal veins that spread out from/through these ''mountains'' etc. are old root systems and parts of old trees.... From silica based trees, the ''wood'' petrifies and/or turns into precious metals etc. , Just like the ''petrified forrest'' of Arizona.. Devils tower is also the remains of a tree.. not ''lava flow'' , sigh..
    Maybe check out a video called ''there are no forests on flat earth'' to begin your awakening to these simple truths that are purposefully being kept from people..

  • @bigroryhollar5023
    @bigroryhollar5023 5 лет назад

    What a dream job 🍻

  • @mr.personality7762
    @mr.personality7762 7 лет назад

    oh my gos, this was G O L D G O L D G O L D hahahahahha

  • @SolitarySister
    @SolitarySister 2 года назад

    Poor frogs.

  • @richardcabeza2087
    @richardcabeza2087 5 лет назад

    Mr Frederickson from UP.

  • @lightningdreams5509
    @lightningdreams5509 8 лет назад

    Edwards FTW XD

  • @calumbrehony8067
    @calumbrehony8067 8 лет назад

    wow

  • @Businessaccount312
    @Businessaccount312 8 лет назад

    14 minutes and i find out theres a new frog? i wanna know about cool new giant dangerous species.

  • @fadilakader4950
    @fadilakader4950 8 лет назад

    Guys, writing This video actually looks cyte center

  • @Smartstudyall
    @Smartstudyall 5 лет назад +1

    I think we have to explore our whole Earth first instead of going deeper into space... because there's much to explore yet.

  • @montinyek6554
    @montinyek6554 8 лет назад

    6:19, look at his feet, who the fuck stands like that?

  • @monkeypolice3048
    @monkeypolice3048 6 лет назад

    Im here to c the big rock not your story.

  • @euandrecampos
    @euandrecampos 8 лет назад

    08:25 it is moments like this, where you have a clear revelation of being part of a "modern society" that evolves as slugs...

  • @simoncurtis8016
    @simoncurtis8016 6 лет назад

    There's no way they pronounce it "tehpouwheeze"

    • @RilanaWandir
      @RilanaWandir 4 года назад

      My parents were working with the Pemón for a while. Growing up, I heard them pronounce it "tep-WEE"; they said it quickly. That may be more accurate. Liking this guy's story so far.

  • @10laws2liveby
    @10laws2liveby 5 лет назад

    Oh boy, so what?

    • @merk9569
      @merk9569 5 лет назад

      @Thomas Bacon You are not a biologist, are you?

  • @sondracee8989
    @sondracee8989 8 лет назад

    So you managed to get all the way up there and only found a frog wow OMG😰