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...Cavers joke that Tasmania is almost hollow, a speleologist's paradise with as much wilderness to explore below ground as above. But while caves are plentiful, caves containing rock art are not. That's why the location of this cave is so closely guarded: since it was found in 2002 by a caver surveying the area for foresters, only a handful of people have seen inside it. So sensitive is the land council about tipping off sightseers and vandals to the cave's whereabouts that a condition of Time's visit is that not even the name of the closest...
...outcrops, winding valleys and steep-sided natural depressions so baffling that one of Shaw's staff recently spent a night lost in it. And for what's under the ground here, in this part of what cave biologist Arthur Clarke calls "the underworld," there are no maps at all. Cavers tend to "look at their feet and not at the walls, so there could be other art work down there," Clarke says as he adjusts his hard hat before going inside. Years of studying the spiders, beetles, aquatic snails and other invertebrates that shun the sunlit world have led Clarke...
...trial run." The work entails repairs of roots, gutters, floors, walls, wiring and plumbing. It also includes touching up brick work and giving the buildings a good scrubbing. The extensive work on the 50 year old Houses presents an unprecedented assignment to builders, and Project Manager Roger Caver says "it's too early to tell" whether all work will be finished by the target date, now seven weeks away The House renovations were slowed initially by a two week delay in June...
Brucker, 47, and Watson, 45, are cavers of the first rank. For nearly two decades they belly-crawled toward what they call "the Everest of world spelology," a presumed connection between Kentucky's vast Flint Ridge cave system and neighboring Mammoth Cave. The possibility of such a connection must have occurred to Floyd Collins, the solitary caver who discovered Great Crystal Cave under Flint Ridge in 1917 and who died in nearby Sand Cave in 1925, after being trapped there for 15 days. Collins' grisly death stirred the nation's curiosity, and for years tourists in Crystal...
...formations, or marble walls, or fossils of extinct animals that make such torture delicious. To a caver it's climbed, the caver'll still be exploring; and as long as extraterrestial opportunities are limited, caving is the one chance anyone then will have. Every weekend, someone opens up a mile of new passage somewhere. At best guess, only a tenth of all the American caves have been discovered, and these are not fully explored...