Word: cavers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1966-1966
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yeah--back to the womb," comes the answer from up the crawlway. But it's not that at all: it's damp and cold down here, with a million tons of rock balanced over your head. In the long squeeze coming through the Gunbarrel, even an experienced caver sometimes feels a twitch of claustrophobia. Novices may have to be dragged up with a rope...
...crowded. They demand skill in mountaineer- "The Last Frontier: The Strange World," as one Grotto flyer puts it. When every last mountain has been ing, plus thorough experience with the special problems of mud, darkness, and water. Any accident in a cave is doubly serious, so the advanced caver has to be a first aid expert. Often cavers participate in rescue programs such as the Boston Grotto's Cave Rescue Communications Network...
...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...