In Explorer: The Last Tepui, the 80-year-old ecologist and conservationist is intent on climbing the 300-plus metres to the peak of a remote table-top mountain, or tepui, deep in Guyana’s Amazon ...

Researcher Philippe Kok summited Wei-Assipu-tepui, a “small table-top mountain” along the Guyana-Brazil border, for a multi-week animal survey in 2009, he wrote in a study published May 25 in ...

ARAU, Guyana (AFP) — A freshly planted Guyanese flag flaps on the summit of a table-top mountain rising ... The 2,300-metre (7,550-foot) mountain — known as a tepui — looms over the tiny ...

The pictures show Mount Roraima, the highest tepui, or table-top mountain, in Venezuela, on the northern coast of South America. The peak is 2,810m above sea level and is so tall that clouds can ...

Philippe Kok summited Murisipán-tepui, “a poorly explored table-top mountain,” for a four-day animal survey in 2012, he wrote in a study published June 16 in the Journal of Vertebrate Biology.

Tepuis are flat table-top mountains found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela. In the language of the Pemon people who live in the Gran Sabana, Tepui means ‘House ...

It’s difficult to describe the feeling of standing beneath Auyán-Tepuí, that towering table mountain in southern ... presence of the landscape. The tepui rose from the rainforest like a ...

The 2,300-metre (7,550-foot) mountain -- known as a tepui -- looms ... Irfaan Ali in November took a helicopter to the top of the tepui where he raised Guyana's red, gold, and green flag known ...

Scientists summited Wei-Assipu-tepui mountain and discovered a “cryptic” new animal species carrying its babies on its back, the study said. Photo from Philippe Kok Perched on a leaf in the ...