There are only two certainties in life, death and taxes, Benjamin Franklin once claimed, clearly forgetting about the obvious third – come January, people will take a notion and decide this is the ...
In the absolute darkness 333 feet beneath Tennessee's Cardwell Mountain, I am belly-crawling through a passage barely wider than my shoulders, headlamp cutting through blackness so complete it seems ...
Matt Ewles says rescue incidents give caving a bad reputation After an arduous 30-hour operation to save three men trapped underground highlighted the potential perils of caving, some may question its ...
This story is part of a series. View the other stories here. Mountains aren’t just solid stone. Beneath their austere foundation, spaces wind deep into the earth — places people have long explored.