The summit is being lowered as rain strips away the surface rock.

The mountain is not static; it is slowly being consumed by the same processes that shaped it.

This is actually the most important thing that Roraima’s geology teaches: the natural world is not a fixed collection of features but an ongoing process.

The mountains, the rivers, the species, the ecosystems — all of these are not stable states but moments in a process.

The two-billion-year-old rocks are a moment in the process of sedimentation, burial, lithification, uplift, and erosion.