CP, S&M - Of Cell Phones, Smoke and Mirrors

When Jimmy Angel’s Flamingo monoplane "Rio Caroni" touched down, it stuck fast in a muddy marsh atop Auyantepui. Angel, his newlywed wife, Marie, and two friends, one a native Venezuelan familiar with the surrounding area, found themselves hiking and hacking their way out of the jungle for the next 11 days. Part of their ordeal was climbing down the face of Auyan-tepui, following closely the route of a very long waterfall. Two years before in 1935, during another one of his many gold seeking trips, Jimmy had spotted this particular waterfall from the air. He swore to his drinking buddies back in Caracas that it was the tallest in the world. They thought he’d had one too many and this was yet another of his “tall’ adventure tales. After the foursome returned to civilization, news of their survival got out and the waterfall gained worldwide attention. It was eventually properly measured at 3,211 feet tall with an uninterrupted drop of 2,647 feet. It’s over 15 times taller than Niagara Falls and is the tallest in the world. Its tongue-twisting native Pemón Indian name, Parekupá-Merú, was soon lost to its new western name "Angel Falls."