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Blind Descent - The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth (Paperback, Digital original)
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Blind Descent - The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth (Paperback, Digital original)
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List price R372
Loot Price R338
Discovery Miles 3 380
You Save R34 (9%)
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The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed
for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been
made. This is the story of the men and women who risked everything
to find it, earning their place in history beside the likes of
Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong. In 2004, two great
scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world.
Bold, American Bill Stone was committed to the vast Cheve Cave,
located in southern Mexico and deadly even by supercave standards.
On the other side of the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer
Alexander Klimchouk - Stone's opposite in temperament and style -
had targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the
Republic of Georgia. Blind Descent explores both the brightest and
darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discover - to be
first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even
extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration pale by comparison.
These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two
vertical miles deep and many more miles from their caves' exits.
They had to contend with thousand-foot drops, deadly flooded
tunnels, raging whitewater rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long
belly crawls, and much more. Perhaps even worse were the
psychological horrors produced by weeks plunged into absolute,
perpetual darkness, beyond all hope of rescue, including a
particularly insidious derangement called 'The Rapture'. Blind
Descent is a testament to human survival and endurance - and to two
extraordinary men whose relentless pursuit of greatness led them to
heights of triumph and depths of tragedy neither could have
imagined.
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