Angel Falls in Venezuela, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, was first brought to the attention of the outside world by the American aviator Jimmie Angel. On November 16, 1933, Angel was flying his Flamingo monoplane over the remote "Devil's Mountain" (Auyán-tepui) in search of gold when he spotted the massive 3,212-foot cascade. He returned in 1937 with his wife and three others, but his plane, the El Rio Caroní, became stuck in the marshy ground at the top of the falls. The group had to trek for 11 days through the jungle to reach civilization. While the indigenous Pemon people had known of the falls for centuries (calling it Kerepakupai Merú), the falls were officially named after the "discoverer" Jimmie Angel. In 1970, his original plane was recovered from the mountain top and is now a museum piece in Ciudad Bolívar, serving as a 2026 tribute to the daring era of early "bush pilot" exploration.