It will be here after the current configuration of its biological communities has been replaced by whatever evolution and climate produce next.

The specific organisms on the summit today are the current occupants of a habitat that has been occupied, in one form or another, for a very long time — and that will continue to be occupied, by whoever and whatever can make it there and survive, for a very long time to come.

The lost world is not lost.

It never was.

It is the most found thing imaginable — found by the Pemón in their traditions, found by the European naturalists in their expeditions, found by the scientists in their research, found by the trekkers in their experiences, found by any human mind that encounters it and recognizes in its strangeness the reflection of something true and deep about the world.