In 2001 a team led by Ukrainian Yuri Kasjan set a world record in the cave of ... Probing a series of “windows” in the walls of the deepest part of the cave, the team was blocked time and ...

BEST OF 2019: The Veryovkina Cave is the deepest known cave on Earth. It took half a century and about 30 expeditions for Russian cave explorers to reach its record depth of 2,212 metres.

Krubera Cave has another name - Voronya - which translates as "Crows' Cave". This name was given because crows were observed nesting in the entrance pit of the cave. With its dramatic pits, chasms ...

Larisa Pozdnyakova’s words, in her thick Russian accent, float to me from within the cave’s seemingly endless ... the expedition team—an ensemble of world-class cavers and scientists ages ...

The world’s largest cave is over five miles long - so big that even a Boeing 747 could fit inside it. Hang Son Doong is in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam, near the border with Laos ...

CEDAR FALLS — A team of NASA-funded University of Northern Iowa researchers is exploring some of the deepest caves in the United States to uncover secrets about life in extreme environments ...

His favorite is Ellison’s Cave in Georgia, which features Fantastic Pit, the deepest unobstructed pit in the U.S. The Reuters are just two caving buffs in a large, ever-growing community of ...

Descent into a cave is about overcoming obstacles ... Moscow extreme cavers were discoverers of the deepest secrets of the planet They set a new world record the Veryovkin cave in Abkhazia ...