EXPEDITION TO ANGEL FALLS

In 1998 I was reading a copy of the UK’s TRAIL magazine that included a feature
on the 'World's Ten Greatest Treks'. Most of the epic routes in their list were the classic Himalayan circuits to be found in Nepal, India and the Karakoram mountains of Northern Pakistan. However, one trek was radically different and leapt off the page at me. It was a two week jungle odyssey by four wheel drive, dug out canoe and on foot through remote Venezuelan rainforest to Angel Falls, the World's highest waterfall. The route had only first been attempted commercially in 1995 by a small travel firm called Geodyssey and they were still the only operators running the trip. Their 'Expedition to Angel Falls' was
immediately appealing. I had always wanted to visit the rainforest of South America,
and on this walk our guides and porters would be the local Pemon Indians who would have unrivalled knowledge of the terrain, wildlife and of jungle survival.

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Six days of walking and a further three by motorised dug out canoe took us through the area's unique scenery of table top mountains (known as tepuis), and culminated at the sheer three thousand feet high quartz face where Angel Falls spills down into the jungle from the summit of Auyantepui. This was an unforgettable introduction to the rainforest and Venezuela.

Read my (edited) travel diary of the trip here

Go to my photographs of the expedition here

View my GPS waypoint list for the trek (with DISCLAIMER) here

View the trek waypoints on Google Earth     
(requires Google Earth [available here], click on link above and select 'Open' when prompted)

My equipment list for the trip (with weights)

Geodyssey - Expedition to Angel Falls

Link to Richard Bickerton's photos of the trek

Read my article 'Expedition to Angel Falls' as it appeared in the July / August 2001 issue of AT Magazine (Adventure Travel Magazine)   

This is anAdobe pdf file.
The article appears here with the kind permission of AT Magazine.