El Yoyo, Part 3: Going Up
I’ve gotten my fill of the pit’s bottom, and now I begin one of the most strenuous, terrifying and sublime climbs of my life.
Read more "El Yoyo, Part 3: Going Up"I’ve gotten my fill of the pit’s bottom, and now I begin one of the most strenuous, terrifying and sublime climbs of my life.
Read more "El Yoyo, Part 3: Going Up"Yoyo-ing is a subdiscipline of caving where the vertical dimension dominates the horizontal. Being a climber, I’d expected Mexican sótanos to be a piece of cake. Boy was I wrong.
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Read more "Deep Life"A trip to Cave of the Domes, the only cavern in Grand Canyon National Park that’s open to recreational caving.
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