Angel Falls

Angel Falls has an upper section where it emerges briefly from the
slot canyon, plunges 100 feet or so and then goes into a cave or a
crevice and emerges again below about 150 feet or so to take the
long drop. It is extremely treacherous to move around in this area
as even the short drop would kill you easily X3. You have to be
anchored down when standing around the top of the falls.That
leads to the second consideration, that the falls at high water
creates its own weather. There are tremendous gusts of wind and
waves of spray that is created by the first and second part of the
falls crashing against the rocks and into the cave. Great gusts of
wind emerge both above and below the cave. It is a pretty unique
situation as you might expect from the world's highest waterfalls.
From a distance you only see one great falls, but close up you can
see a series of canyons, tunnels, and caves into which the falls
enter and emerge several times at the top. In medium or high
water this area is extremely violent with high unpredictable winds
and waves of spray as you mentioned. The base jumpers always
jump at low water to avoid the high winds. Some of the best
jumpers in the world jumping under the very best of conditions
have been killed there anyway
 In the western part of Canaima National Park, is the Auyantepuy, one of the largest and
better known "tepuy" (A flat top mountain ending with vertical walls). From this tepuy is
where the Angel falls are formed. The fall is 979 meters high (around 3000 ft.), and is the
higher waterfall in the world.Spills from the Auyantepui into what is known as the Devil's
canyon 979 Meters below. The local indians call it Kerepakupai-merú but is was named
Angel Falls after Jimmy Angel, an American bush pilot and gold-hunting adventurer, who
discovered it in 1937. The waters fall freely some 807 meters (2,648 feet) and reach the
bottom of the valley as a misty spray that gathers into a small creek which eventually
finds its way into the north-bound Churun River.The Natives in Venezuela had known
about the "Salto Angel" since the beginning of time. Then United States pilot Jimmie
Angel was flying over the area in 1935 when he landed on the top of a lone mountain in
search of gold. His plane got stuck in the boggy jungle on top of the mountain and he
noticed a pretty impressive waterfall plunging thousands of feet down. He wasn't too
happy about the 11 mile hike back to civilization, and his plane remained stuck and
rusting upon the mountain as a monument to his discovery. Soon the whole world would
know about the falls, which came to be known as Angel Falls, after the pilot who
"discovered" them.Angel Falls plunges from the top of a mesa, or what the natives call a
Tepuyi. Named "Auyantepui", the Angel Falls mesa is one of over a hundred of its kind
which are scattered about the Guiana Highlands of southeast Venezuela. Like so many
slumbering giants, what characterizes these mesas (Tepuys) is their massive heights
soaring up towards the sky, each with a flat top and totally vertical sides (check out the
picture at left). Also called "table mountains" (which accurately describes their shapes)
these Tepuys were formed out of sandstone billions of years ago. Their vertical sides are
continually being eroded by the action of water from the heavy rainfall the Guiana
Highlands gets.