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Mount Roraima, a tepui, or sandstone mesa, rises from the clouds in southeastern Venezuela. These rare 4,000-foot (1,200-meter) plateaus have lured adventurers to Venezuela's canyonlands for decades, and are believed to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write his 1912 novel, The Lost World. Photograph by Travel Ink