Aleksandrs Laime was born on 9 July 1911. A Latvian – explorer of the Venezuelan jungle.
110 years ago in Riga, into the family of a tailor, was born the Latvian traveller and adventurer Aleksandrs Laime, who grew up in Grīziņkalns. He was the first person in the world to reach the 979-metre-high Angel Falls in Venezuela on foot, which is the tallest waterfall in the world.