Story of explorer trapped for 17 days in Kentucky cave still draws interest 100 years later
When Floyd Collins ventured into Sand Cave in Kentucky on Jan. 30, 1925, he was searching for the next big attraction. But he ...
When Alabamians turned caves into Prohibition-era speakeasies to party underground
Caves were used during nationwide Prohibition (1920-1933) and during the subsequent years when Alabama laws continued to make ...
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The 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation
On the other side, the cave widened. Collins crawled like a toddler until the earth pinched closed again. He wiggled through ...
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Step inside this massive cave labyrinth hidden under Borneo
At dusk, a swarm of bats disperses to hunt in the rainforest surrounding Deer Cave. One of the planet ... lowered themselves into a slick, humid pit deep below Borneo’s rainforest.
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Call of the Abyss—World's Deepest Cave
The cave, located in the separatist region of Abkhazia ... But finally, on October 19, Kasjan dropped down a pit later dubbed Millennium and looked at his altimeter. He had passed the 2,000 ...
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Take a look at China's sunken courtyard houses, where people traditionally lived in pit homes carved into the ground
Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...