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tooth
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The Best Place On Earth
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 8, 2010 - 09:36am PT
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I was just in Guyana and the bush pilot told me that there are large granite walls in the jungle down there. He said 3000' wall, steps back, and another 3000' face on the side of 10,000' mountains.
Anyone heard about this or been there? I think I may be returning in April and I'll try to catch a ride with him to scope it out. It is on the boarder with Brazil in region 7 and some of region 8.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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I know nothing about Guyana. Just googled... "big cliff Guyana" for the heck of it:
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Did a jungle wall in neighboring Venezuela in 1980. Picture shows Mike Graber.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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When the wall was less than vertical it collected a bit of vegetation. Lot's of handholds but you had to watch what you were grabbing.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Now I'm curious and poking around in the Geology website to see what kind of rock it is. Possibly sedimentary?
Stealing random photos here:
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sandstone, pretty dense and solid.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Don't drink any Kool-aid down there - jess sayin'.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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I am a dog. I like Tepuis!
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WBraun
climber
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Go climb in the deep jungle sometime and you'll really appreciate places like Yosemite and all the nice places in the USA.
There's a ton of nasty sh'it crawling around, muck in the cracks, vegetation all over.
Oh you'll love it .....
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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That there is real climbing.
Yosemite? Might as well be a really big gym.
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tooth
Trad climber
The Best Place On Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 8, 2010 - 10:40pm PT
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Hey, we were in Mabaruma, and some other places up north. Headed back in April, thanks for all the good info!
And Werner, we got bug infestations while we were down there. A friend had something crawl under the skin on her foot, between her toes, it is months later and it still hasn't crawled out. She stuffs it with gauze every evening, pulls it out to try and dry and heal in the day. Personally I would go see a doctor...
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MarkGrubb
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I worked in Guyana as a Geologist on the upper and lower Mazaruni River (Kurupung and Kamarang) for a few years. Awesome place and have been itching to go back and look around. The jungle down there is (was) very clean, pristine, and absolutely stunning. The Guiana Shield is mostly silica-rich rocks and consequently the soils and eventually the entire ecosystem is very, very nutrient poor. As a result, it lack a lot of the nasties that the Amazon Basin has yet retains an incredible flora and fauna. It is also very, very sparsely inhabited.
The Pakaraima Mountains are almost exclusively Precambrian quartzite; very hard rock, mostly overhung and extensively vegetated. As the links others provided show, it is pretty nasty by most climbing standards. Think Colorado Plateau covered with primary rainforest and 100's of huge waterfalls and canyons filled with massive rivers. Absolutely surreal and beautiful.
In the Rupununni Savannah of southern Guyana there are inselbergs (rounded domes) of granite but none in the Pakaraima's.
What takes you there? Georgetown has always been a "choke 'n rob" (mugger's) paradise but it seems to have gotten worse and more violent recently. Any opinion?
Would appreciate any Beta on the country you might provide.
The critter in your friend's foot is likely a fly larvae. I have had tons of these. Three choices: 1) Leave it be and it will eventually crawl out and fly away. Douse it with a bit of alcohol so it rears its ugly head above skin level and take a needle and skewer it horizontally (parallel to skin) and ease it out. Screw this up and you now have a dead, soon-to-be rotting critter in your skin which will give you the mother of all infections (we will not discuss how I know this). The local Amerindian girls were masters at excising the bastards intact. 3) Go to a US Dr. who will freak out, do a huge surgical excision, and charge kilo-dollars for the crater he left in her hide. It cost a friend about $3K to get one remove from her scalp.
Or perhaps a voodoo curse, a pair of tweezers, and a sharp Swiss Army knife. I have seen that work as well.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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"Climb to the Lost World" (McInnes) is the classic account of a 1973 English climb on Roraima.
My father worked there for several years in the early 1950s, for Alcan. He has a variety of memorabilia, and I'll ask about photos. Not sure if he got far into the interior, though - it was much more inaccessible then.
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altelis
Mountain climber
DC
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Sounds more like a maggot than a guinea worm....guinea worms are spread by drinking contaminated water. none of their life-cycle involves flies.
One way to get the maggot to rear its head is to coat the area with vaseline. bugger can't get any air, and it'll poke its head up....many ways from there to finish the deed.
g'luck w/ that one!
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The Guy
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Lets got get that unobtainium in justthemaid's pictures!
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tooth
Trad climber
The Best Place On Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2010 - 09:48pm PT
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Hey Mark,
I go down there to do dentistry. A friend who flies people out to access medical care asked that we help out in a few villages where people constantly ask him for dental care.
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