The forests and mountains of Guyana’s north-west are only 150 miles from Georgetown, as the harpy eagle flies — but they can seem half a world and several centuries away. Flat-topped Ayangaik Mountain, a sandstone tepui rising from the forest canopy, looks utterly remote, but the Amerindian village of Kamarang to the south is an important centre for gold and diamond mining.
Wild frontier
Ayangaik Mountain in Guyana’s thickly forested north-west seems to belong to a different world and time
