Karen Angelo is the niece of Jimmie Angelo and President of the Jimmie Angelo progetto storico (JAHP). Gli JAHP’s mission is to provide accurate information about Jimmie Angelo. She published a photo biography titled “Angel’s Flight – The Life of Jimmie Angel – American Aviator-Explorer – Discoverer of Angel Falls” in 2019.

Angel Falls in Del Venezuela vast Parco nazionale di Canaima may have been known to the indigenous Pemón people of the southeastern Gran Sabana region, at least the canyon that the falls cascade into – according to the Kamarakoto elders. The author L.R. Dennison, published a book called La Montagna del Diavolo and named the canyon that leads to Angel Falls – “Diavolo Canyon” (Churun ​​Canyon) and called the tepuy the “House of the Devil”. So it is probably a mythical name none the less, but due to the waterfall’s location deep inside the canyon of the mythical House of the Devil, perhaps even the Pemón did not know of the waterfall’s existence – Angel Falls, the world’s tallest waterfall, which cascades 3,212 piedi (979 metri).

Born in Missouri near St. Louis in 1899, Angelo was obsessed with Auyán-tepui; un 435 square mile heart shaped tabletop mountain in the southeastern Gran Sabana region of Venezuela. Angelo believed that it was the home of a lost river of gold that he claimed to have been taken to years before by a mining geologist he called McCracken.

Angelo was working as an aviator-guide in the Gran Sabana per il Santa Ana Mining Company of Tulsa, Oklahoma nell'autunno del 1933 with his Mexican co-pilot and mechanic Jose Cardona and mining official D. H. Curry. While on a solo flight Novembre 16, 1933, Angelo flew a Travel Air S-6000B, powered by a three hundred-horsepower Wright J-6-9 engine, registration number NC-431W into Diavolo Canyon and saw for the first time what was to become known to the world as Angel Falls. A causa di incessanti piogge, Curry e Cardona quit the area without seeing what Angelo referred to as his “mile high waterfall.”

The name Angel Falls first came about during a Caracas reunion in 1937 con Angelo and his friends, American petroleum geologist I. F. “Shorty” Martin e venezuelano civil engineer and expert outdoorsman and mountaineer Gustavo (Cabuya: “String”) Heny. They were talking about the waterfall and when they did not have a name for it, Heny suggested the name Angel Falls; using Jimmie’s last name because he had made it known to the world.

Jimmie Angelo e Angel Falls became better known to the world as the result of his Ottobre 9, 1937, landing of his Flamingo airplane Il fiume Caroni, SU Auyantepui in search of McCracken’s lost river of gold.

Jimmie’s expeditions companions were his wife Marie, Gustavo Heny, Heny’s gardener and jungle companion Miguel Angel Delgado, and Spanish botanist Captain Felix Cardona Puig.

Angelo had scouted a landing spot on Auyán-tepui from the air.

Heny e Cardona, who was born in Barcelona, Spagna, had explored for a foot route from their camp at Guayaraca SU Auyán-tepui’s south flank, per il sito di atterraggio proposta che era sul lato settentrionale del pianoro. La loro ricerca era riuscita solo in parte. A disgruntled Cardona returned to camp after a few days while Heny continued to pursue a northern route. He was able to establish a route across much of the plateau but was turned back from reaching the planned landing site because of the tepui’s great interior wall. Durante i suoi quindici giorni di ricognizione, Angelo dropped supplies attached to small parachutes that had been fashioned by Heny’s sister Carmen.