Duida

Untouched by fear, he remained around San Carlos for nearly five months, making a number of excursions and acquiring what provisions he could for his next major expedition: a traverse of the Casiquiare to the Orinoco and the flank of Cerro Duida, the mountain of the Lost World, an isolated massif that rises more than eight thousand feet above the forest floor.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Cerro Duida Mountain of the Lost World, 373, 399-400

One River Wade Davis 1996

Cerro Duida Mountain of the Lost World, 373, 399-400

One River Wade Davis 1996

Along the course of the Casiquiare are isolated mountains of stone, like the Roca de Guanári, where Humboldt determined the longitude and latitude of the canal and thus proved its existence; but all of these are dwarfed by the Cerro Duida.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Humboldt had written that Cerro Duida could not be climbed.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Untouched by fear, he remained around San Carlos for nearly five months, making a number of excursions and acquiring what provisions he could for his next major expedition: a traverse of the Casiquiare to the Orinoco and the flank of Cerro Duida, the mountain of the Lost World, an isolated massif that rises more than eight thousand feet above the forest floor.

One River Wade Davis 1996

In 1801, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland collected it at the base of Cerro Duida, the mountain of the Lost World that soars above the beginning of the Casiquiare, the natural canal that runs between the headwaters of the Río Negro in Brazil and the Orinoco in Venezuela.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Humboldt had written that Cerro Duida could not be climbed.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Along the course of the Casiquiare are isolated mountains of stone, like the Roca de Guanári, where Humboldt determined the longitude and latitude of the canal and thus proved its existence; but all of these are dwarfed by the Cerro Duida.

One River Wade Davis 1996

In 1801, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland collected it at the base of Cerro Duida, the mountain of the Lost World that soars above the beginning of the Casiquiare, the natural canal that runs between the headwaters of the Río Negro in Brazil and the Orinoco in Venezuela.

One River Wade Davis 1996