ALBUMS Destinations Round Pond Run Number Nine Holland Park St Pauls Cathedral Round Pond Birds São Paulo Smog Tobago Cays Fall Reflections NottingHill Natural History Museum Buckingham Ice rain NYC Hudson Ferry Guaratiba Carlisle Bay Rainy Day Sunset Guaratiba Resort Ogle Bottom Bay Bottom Bay Cove Bay Millennium Bridge St. Pauls Little Bay North Point Caves Sun Downers The Shard Jubarte « ‹ of 2 › » Roraima in 1950 - Photographs by R A Wilkins FRGS Arekuna Party Arekuna Generations Arobope Village Tri-Country Boundary Mark Up the Mazaruni Roraima Plateau in 1950 Paiwari festival Macushi man Grumman Goose at Kamarang in 1950 Crossing Ireng River Wapishiana Girls Arobope Village Ray Wilkins (left) with members of the expedition on the summit Arobope Village Wilkins Roraima Expedition (1948) boat trip going up the Kamarang The final approach to Roraima, from within Venezuela View north from Karakana village with unfinished church in foreground Looking S.E from the final approach to the sheer cliff face Portrait of Macushi man Grumman G 21 Goose, amphibious aircraft, on the Kamarang River Arekuna indigenous girls at Amokokopai village Arekuna indigenous infant at Amokokopai Village Kaieteur Falls - 741 ft. vertical drop - on the Potaro River - 1950 Roraima 1973 - Photographs by Jonathan Wilkns BBC Expedition Akawaio men kindle a fire under hanging pot at Camp 6 Forest canopy with Bromiliade parasites at 6000 ft. Akawaio indigenous people erecting a makeshift overnight shelter Akawaio village at Maiurupai Akawaio children at Kamarang Akawaio women preparing grated bitter cassava at Maiurupai View from the ledge at the top of the Prow leading to the Summit Akawaio woman stirs poisonous bitter cassava juice Akawaio woman grating bitter cassava on grater made of wood Climbing the fixed rope and stick ladder to camp 7 at approx. 6000 ft. Rapids on Waruma river near Camp 4 (Alt. approx. 3,800 ft.) Expedition Camp 7 at approx. alt. 7000 ft. clouds blow through tent Akawaio baby in tibiciri hammock at Kamarang Portrait of Akawaio porter and climbers assistant named Maurice The western plateua of Roraima viewed from 7200 ft. at Camp 7 Akawaio man collects firewood in tropical rain forest Maiurupai camp - (left to right) Maurice Barrow, Gordon Forsyth and Alex Scott Akawaio woman carries Warashi loaded with bitter cassava roots Akawaio porters prepare the site for camp in tropical rain forest Kako River at Maiurupai Akawaio woman preparing grated bitter cassava View from the Summit of North Face Roraima - Alt. 9219 ft. Akawaio woman with warashi negotiates a footbridge made from a tree Akawaio woman removing outer skin from bitter cassava root at Maiurupai BBC film crew soundman Gordon Forsyth negotiating the slime forest N.E. face of Mount Roraima as viewed from camp 6 Reconnaissance flight showing NE face and ridge on Roraima Akawaio Indigenous Isaac Jerry fells a tree to prepare a rain forest BBC film crew soundman Gordon Forsyth baskes in momentary glimp of sunshine at Camp 7 Akawaio indigenous boys erecting a makeshift overnight shelter « ‹ of 2 › » Portraits of Men Robin Hunte of The Merrymen Charles Darwin Look alike Ruy Flavio Guiao Agadman Artist Menalton Writer Metro Man José Smokes Menalton Writer Zé Orelha Man at the door Carlisle Bajan Senhor Itamar Arnaldo Mike Paulo Autran Gandini Agadman Charlie Abbot Luke - Jolly Darwin at Down Manor Professor Laercio Menalton Writer Beautiful Women Luiza Isabela Priscila « ‹ of 2 › »