You are right) There are many abjects with warm colors in caves. Thay looks amazing in hicri and hi r9 light, and donot impress at all under low r9 and cri. It even almost not depends on tint below BBL or above BBL.
I am sure all works in caves are hobby)But often its have serious background too.
Our map has several purpose
Cave depth specification.
Help to navigation for future expedition.
Search of new directions for research.
Understanding internal structure massif, it history.
You can see 2D projection here
The big secret is that accuracy of map about 1% in case of Verevkina cave and much worse than 1% in the the case of Krubera cave. So “one of the two deepest cave” is more correct words)
Such a totally awesome adventure AED. Thank you for sharing. I think YLP should share some of their profit with you for your great advertisement of their light.
Wow, that’s at least not too claustrophobic. Impressive formations, I actually wouldn’t mind poking around there, ’though not for 2wks! I like indoor plumbing…
When I think “spelunking”, I usually think of narrow claustrophobic caves where you can so easily get hung up in there, stuck, not be able to turn around, and pretty much die. Go’n’goggle “john jones nutty putty cave”. You couldn’t even force me at gunpoint to go into one of those caves.
I can’t describe how much I admire your determination. I used to cave when much younger, but increasingly got more and more scared, after several near-misses. And tragedies. Having to delicately explain to parents how their son died (badly, but we got the body out eventually, and we were just university students at the time). Then I gave it up. My deepest trip was in the Pyrenees, maybe you know that one.
In caves you quickly understand if caves you destiny or not)
Pyrenees is wonderful place, I was there last year as simple tourist and visit grotte de la Verna. It was simply WOW. Pierre- Saint-Martin is one of desires for me)
But my caving days are mostly over, something has shifted in my head and I no longer have any desire to do this mad stuff, (frankly I get too scared, and wouldn’t want to be a burden on the rest of the team if I freaked out. I’ve had to deal with this in the past with others, whilst remaining totally calm, and it is was not easy.)
Seeing someone completely falling apart because they have got into a situation far beyond their ability to cope, is not nice.
Particularly if you are in exactly the same situation, but trying to hold it all together, and work out a way forward instead of extreme panic.
The military try to avoid this, with selection and testing. And the rules of command.
It’s a game for young people I think. Old and bold is not a good combination.
Great article. I used to be a caver too and can easily imagine the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when things go wrong. Since we are on a flashlight forum, how did the lights hold up? Have you changed your opinions?