By any name, eastern Venezuela's tepui country is indeed rich in fantasy ... and other flora and fauna that occur nowhere else. The area's exotic topography has also nourished enduring tales ...

An elite climbing team is on a mission to deliver biologist Bruce Means to the top of a Guyanese tepui, an "island in the clouds," to search for an undiscovered animal species.

Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villanueva, Stephane Hanssens and Jean-Louis Wertz have established two new routes up Amuri Tepui in Venezuela. There's not a lot to go by at the moment, but what we know is ...