The clouds above are both below the cliff top and wrapping around it, so that the summit is partially visible as a flat dark rim and partially hidden in cloud.

The scale is difficult to process from this close.

The human eye and brain are calibrated for the scales of human experience — the heights of buildings, the distances between towns, the depths of valleys you can take in from a ridge.

The cliffs of Roraima are at the edge of what the visual system handles without cognitive disruption.

They are not impossibly large, but they are large in a way that requires effort to accommodate.

And behind those cliffs is a world that is genuinely different from the world below them.