Once we’d reached the summit there was barely a pause for breath or photos as we made the painful 40 minute walk to the campsite. Unlike our expectations the top was far from flat, with strange shapes eroded by both wind and water forming peaks and troughs, the latter occasionally filled to become streams. The [...]
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Roraima Trek – Santa Ana, Venezuela
Arriving weary after the overnight bus we transferred to the Backpacker Lodge in Santa Ana. Our rooms wouldn’t be ready for some hours so the owner gave us a suggested shopping list gleaned from years of experience of the demands of groups of unfit would-be mountain climbers. Inevitably we ignored this and went for a [...]
