Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth Audiobook (Free)

The deepest cave on the planet was a prize that had remained unclaimed for years and years, long after each other ultimate discovery have been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. Yet as late as 2000, the earth’s deepest cave-the supercave-remained undiscovered. This is actually the story of the women and men who risked everything to find it, generating their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong.

about Blind Descent: The Search to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

In 2004, two great scientist-explorers are attempting to find the bottom of the world. Bold, heroic American Costs Stone is focused on the huge Cheve Cave, located in southern Mexico and fatal actually by supercave requirements. On the other side of the world, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchouk-Stone’s polar contrary in character and design, but every bit his identical in scientific experience, physical bravery, and sheer determination-has targeted Krubera, a freezing problem of the supercave in the Republic of Georgia, where underground problems are compounded from the horrors of separatist battle in this former Soviet republic.

Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discover-to be first. It is also an exciting epic in regards to a pursuit that makes actually severe mountaineering and sea exploration pale by comparison. These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two vertical mls deep and many more mls from their caves’ exits. They had to contend with thousand-foot drops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater streams, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, and much more. Perhaps even even worse were the psychological horrors made by weeks plunged into overall, perpetual darkness, beyond all hope of recovery, including an especially insidious derangement known as The Rapture.

Wayne M. Tabor was granted unparalleled access to logs, journals, photos, and video of the expeditions, aswell as much hours of personal interviews with making it through participants. Blind Descent is an memorable addition to the traditional literature of breakthrough and adventure. It is also a testament to human success and endurance-and to two incredible men whose relentless quest for greatness led these to heights of triumph and depths of tragedy neither could possess imagined.

Includes a 16-pg full-color insert