Pico da Neblina

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pico da Neblina (Fog Peak) is the highest mountain in Brazil, 2,994 metres (9,822 feet) above sea level, in the Imeri mountain range (Serra do Imeri), a section of the Guiana Highlands on the Brazil-Venezuela border. As determined by a border survey expedition in 1962, its summit lies barely within Brazilian territory, at a horizontal distance of a mere 687 meters (2,254 feet) from the Venezuelan border at Pico 31 de Março. The latter peak is only 21 metres lower and Brazil's second highest mountain. The word neblina means "fog" in both Portuguese and Spanish; so, the peak's name (meaning "Peak of the Mists") reflects that it is shrouded in dense clouds most of the time. It was first ascended in 1965 by members of a Brazilian army expedition.