À propos of islands in the sky...
This is Mount Roraima, Venezuela, one of the oldest and most mysterious geological formations in the world—and inspiration for the novel 'The Lost World' (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Pemon and Kapon tribes call Mount Roraima “Tepui”, i.e. House of Gods. They believe it is the stump of an ancient giant tree that once held all the fruits and vegetables of the world until it was felled by the trickster god, Makunaima, causing a terrible flood
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Thought the same thing - was thinking of Disney’s Up - but looked it up and Angel Falls seem to be on a separate mountain Auyán Tepui.
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It’s also the subject of a wonderful climbing book by Hamish MacInnes – Climb to the Lost World. Highly recommended.
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