OhMayGod Mount Roraima Looks Like It is Straight Out Of The Movies, but it is quite real

Mount Roraima Looks Like It is Straight Out Of The Movies, but it is quite real -

This is probably what comes to mind when you you imagine a mountain - triangular, snowy peaks piercing the sky.

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But Mount Roraima is about to change that notion

The flat tepui, or on the table mountain, expanding the borders of three countries South America .: Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana.

By far, it might not look particularly impressive ...

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But looking closer, the cliffs of 1,300 feet are quite breathtaking.

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A photo posted by Planet (@lonelyplanetfriend) on May 25, 2015 at 0:17 PDT

Roraima is part of Canaima National park and table peaks are some of the oldest geological formations on Earth .

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They go back there are two billion years.

Because of this, as tepuis Roraima are inhabited by plants and animals that are found nowhere else on the planet.

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it is not uncommon that the high mountain sky to be wrapped in cloud cover.

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Although it may seem impossible, people actually climb the plateau.

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A photo posted by Chris Across the World (@chrisacrosstheworld ) on September 27, 2015 at 20:31 PDT

clearly the view is worth the dangerous trek.

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If you are lucky enough to attend a sunrise or sunset the sun from the top, you can count yourself among the luckiest hikers the world.

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If this one here will inspire you not to make a trip south, I do not know what will! Who is coming with me?!

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