Throughout this adventure, the action quotient is high. Come along as the team rappels from dizzying heights into pitch blackness, and they contort their bodies through chest-compressing passageways and crawl on their bellies like worms. All the while, they take great care not to step off the marked trail or touch any formations, eat sandwiches over plastic bags so no crumbs fall to the floor of the cave, and get down on hands and knees to scrub off boot marks. It's clear that caving is as much about study, stewardship, and preservation as it is about adventure. M Trying to have your headlamp on as little as possible by mooching off the light cast by others' lamps.
Every person sheds thousands of tiny skin particles every minute.
Believe it or not, this is a major contamination problem in the fragile cave environment. Photo by Jeff Scher.