Thursday, March 4, 2010

Question - 443

Both pictures show the same location. Identify this spectacularly inaccessible place. This place also served as an inspiration for a novel and a movie. Name both.

Answer: This is Mount Roraima tepui in Venezuela. The inaccessibility of the place inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to place his Lost World on top of this mountain in a world where dinosaurs still survive. The recent Pixar movie Up which is itself inspired by Doyle's work is set in a landscape very similar to the one in this tepui and its surrounding areas. Raghu, Divya, Karthik, Pavan, An0n, Ramki, Iam, Ajinkya, Hari, Mekie, Mainak and Adi got it. Well done.

13 comments:

Raghu said...

Mount Roraima

Lost World and Up

Divya said...

mount roraima

Divya said...

oh. up and the lost world (NOT the crichton one)

Unknown said...

Mount Roraima

pavan said...

Roraima Tepui. Conan Doyle's Lost World & Pixar's Up.

An0n said...

Roraima,

Doyle's Lost World

Pixar's UP

Ramki said...

Mount Roraima in South America , the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World"

Iam said...

Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World and Roraima (Another Venezuelan beauty .... Eh ?)

Unknown said...

The Roraima Tepui. Parque Nacional Canaima, Venezuela.
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost world.
"Up" movie.

Hari said...

Roraima; Up

mekie said...

Roraima Tepui & the Lost World

Mainak said...

The Lost World and Up?

Adi said...

Mount Roraima ... The lost world by Arthur Conan Doyle?