Keys numbers for Angel Falls

Act One:  The Discovery 

over 3,200' off table-top mountain (ta-poo-eee)

1933 - first sighting 


Act Two:  The Return 

1937 - return and crash 

11-day journey  

1939 - first naming of the falls in Jimmie's honor on Venezuelan maps 


ACT Three:  The Legacy 


1956 - untimely death of Jimmy at the age of 57  

scattered his ashes in 1960 over the falls 

after sitting for 33 years, his crashed plane is airlifted off the tepui in 1970 and reassembled at the area's capital airport 


History, nature, adventure, sweeping cinematography


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