UK explorer says highest peak of Mount Roraima is on Guyana side

UK adventurer Charlie Bicknell believes that he has found the tallest point of Mount Roraima, which essentially translates to the highest point in all of Guyana.

Mount Roraima, explored many times before, serves as the tri-junction point between Guyana, Venezuela and Brazil.

It was once thought that the highest peak of Mount Roraima was on the Venezuelan side, but Bicknell is claiming otherwise following his expedition here recently.

He climbed up Roraima’s “face” from the Guyana side and ascended a peak way higher than what was recorded on the Venezuelan side.

Unlike the other countries where information was readily available, Charlie found that in Guyana, there’s no record of where the tallest point is.

“So I particularly wanted to find it,” he told the News Room this week.

“I brought three instruments with me: my GPS watch, my GPS phone and a barometer which measures air pressure and gives you the altitude.”

Charlie says Guyana is unique and he has not experienced anything like Mount Roraima in any other part of the world.

“On top of the mountain is all sorts of crazy shapes and faces and creatures carved into the rocks, and I think if I am not wrong, the top of Roraime has been exposed to 500 million years of erosion, so there’s all of these unbelievable shapes on top of the mountain and all of these crazy canyons and valleys. Just being on top of Roraima is a unique experience.”

In an interview with the News Room this week, the 31-year-old said he’s on a mission to climb the tallest mountain in every country in South America, and having completed eight already, he is moving on to Columbia, Suriname, Chile and Argentina.

After collecting all of his information, the aim is to make a documentary of the 12 mountains.

“This goal of climbing the 12 mountains of South America was a dream I had for years. As the years have gone by no one has actually completed this challenge.”