Caving

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Caving has long been a thrilling recreation experience for young and old. Here a caver, or spelunker (someone who explores caves), from Sweden crawls through an ice cave inside a glacier in Norway as far north as you can fly on a scheduled flight.

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Greg Brick does some spelunking at the famous Carver Cave in St. Paul, Minnesota. The term spelunker came along in the early 1940s in the US as a term more specifically for somebody who explores caves as a hobby.

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At Kula Kai Cave in Hawaii a caver views a odd-shaped rock slab atop a large rock pile.

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Ancient Living Caves: Mexican archaeologist Guillermo de Anda is aided by two young archeologists as he prepares to dive into an underground lake inside a cenote cave in Tzibichen on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Archeologists using long-forgotten testimony from the Inquisition trials of Indian heretics in the 1500's have discovered caves in which ancient Mayas built chambers, altars and underground roads that appear to represent the path that departed spirits had to travel after death.

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LEWIS AND CLARK CAVERNS

Hundreds of baby stalactites growing from the ceiling of the Lewis and Clark Caverns east of Butte, Montana, are viewed by the state park's manager. Park rangers try to maintain areas like these and ensure they remain undisturbed by the thousands of visitors who descend into the caverns each year.

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British Caving team believe they have discovered the largest sized cave passage in the world in Vietnam. Measuring 200 meters in height and 150 meters in width the new cave, called Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave), is 6.5 km long. Assisted by representatives of Hanoi University of Science the team explored the new cave for five days. The team spent six hours trekking through the jungle to reach the cave. Climbing down into a large chamber, they had to negotiate two underground rivers before reaching the main passage of the Hang Son Doong.

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British Caving team believe they have discovered the largest sized cave passage in the world in Vietnam. Measuring 200 meters in height and 150 meters in width the new cave, called Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave), is 6.5 km long. Assisted by representatives of Hanoi University of Science the team explored the new cave for five days. The team spent six hours trekking through the jungle to reach the cave. Climbing down into a large chamber, they had to negotiate two underground rivers before reaching the main passage of the Hang Son Doong.

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British Caving team believe they have discovered the largest sized cave passage in the world in Vietnam. Measuring 200 meters in height and 150 meters in width the new cave, called Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave), is 6.5 km long. Assisted by representatives of Hanoi University of Science the team explored the new cave for five days. The team spent six hours trekking through the jungle to reach the cave. Climbing down into a large chamber, they had to negotiate two underground rivers before reaching the main passage of the Hang Son Doong.

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Stalactites, stalagmites, and columns fill the cavern at the entrance of Riverbluff Cave in Springfield, Missouri. Five years after the cave was first accidentally discovered by construction workers, exploration and archaeology on the cave continues.

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Jared Hubbard from the Provo Fire Department climbs out of the mouth of a small cave above the Seven Peaks area above Provo, Utah, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005, a cave in which two women and two men were found dead, officials said Thursday. Police were working to identify the people, ages 18 to 28, and notify relatives, said Karen Mayne, a spokeswoman for the Provo Police Department.

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