Word: speleologist
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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...
...thinks of the poor hog breeder torn between love of his work and a yen for European travel? Who cares about the speleologist yearning to visit foreign lands but loath to mix with ordinary tourists who never plumbed a cave? Travel agents, that's who. What's more, they're doing something about it. This year Academy Travel Ltd. will assemble an exclusive and hardy band of spelunkers in London, collect $195 a head, and lead them off on a somewhat sunless 15-day crawl through the caves of Rumania. In New York, Lindblad Travel...
...Caves of Adventure, which describes two trips to the bottom of the Pierre Saint-Martin pothole in the Pyrenees, Polish-born Haroun Tazieff gives a speleologist's answer. After dropping into the limestone mountain about as far down as the Empire State Building is up (1,250 ft.), Tazieff had "an astonishing feeling" of accomplishment. The experience made him skeptical of such highfalutin motives for spelunking as the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development of a nation's natural resources by discovering underground rivers for hydroelectric power. Holes and caves, Tazieff concluded, seduce speleologists with that most...
...first expedition to the Pierre Saint-Martin, in 1951, discovered two enormous caves and a river below, the 1,000-ft. perpendicular descent into the mountain chimney. Lured on a second expedition into the hole last year as the official photographer, Tazieff saw French Speleologist Marcel Louberis fall from a snapped cable and break his back on the rocks below. Thirty-six hours later, with reporters and photographers swarming around the entrance to the hole and the world waiting for news, the suspense drama of the year ended tragically as Loubens died (TIME...
...record: 2,158 ft. into the Dent de Crolles, a mountain in the western Alps, held by French Speleologist Pierre Chevalier since...