A British wildlife film-maker has returned from one of the most inaccessible parts of the world with extraordinary footage of previously unseen ancient rock art.
In an area of Colombia so vast and remote that contact has still not been made with some tribes thought to live there, Mike Slee used a helicopter to film hundreds of paintings depicting hunters and animals believed to have been created thousands of years ago.
The extraordinary art includes images of jaguar, crocodiles and deer. They are painted in red, on vertical rock faces in Chiribiquete national park, a 12,000 square kilometre Unesco world heritage site that is still largely unexplored. There are also paintings of warriors or hunters dancing or celebrating. Slee told the Observer,“It is the land that time forgot.”
