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

Angel Falls em da Venezuela vast Parque Nacional 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 Montanha do Diabo and named the canyon that leads to Angel Falls – “Canyon do Diabo” (Cânion Churún) 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 pés (979 metros).

Born in Missouri near St. Louis em 1899, Anjo was obsessed with Auyan-tepui; uma 435 square mile heart shaped tabletop mountain in the southeastern Gran Sabana region of Os primeiros exploradores. Anjo 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.

Anjo was working as an aviator-guide in the Gran Sabana para o Santa Ana Mining Company of Tulsa, Oklahoma, no outono de 1933 with his Mexican co-pilot and mechanic Jose Cardona and mining official D. H. Curry. While on a solo flight Novembro 16, 1933, Anjo flew a Travel Air S-6000B, powered by a three hundred-horsepower Wright J-6-9 engine, registration number NC-431W into Canyon do Diabo and saw for the first time what was to become known to the world as Angel Falls. Devido às fortes chuvas incessantes, Curry e Cardona quit the area without seeing what Anjo referred to as his “mile high waterfall.”

The name Angel Falls first came about during a Caracas reunion in 1937 com Anjo 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 Anjo e Angel Falls became better known to the world as the result of his Outubro 9, 1937, landing of his Flamingo airplane Rio Caroni, on 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.

Anjo had scouted a landing spot on Auyan-tepui from the air.

Heny e Cardona, who was born in Barcelona, Espanha, had explored for a foot route from their camp at Guayaracá on Auyán-tepui’s south flank, para o local de pouso proposta que foi no lado norte do planalto. Sua pesquisa foi apenas parcialmente bem sucedido. 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 seus quinze dias de reconhecimento, Anjo dropped supplies attached to small parachutes that had been fashioned by Heny’s sister Carmen.