Beyond the Deep: The Deadly Descent into the World's Most Treacherous Cave - Couverture rigide

Stone, William; Ende, Barbara Am; Paulsen, Monte

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0446527092 ISBN 13 : 9780446527095

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized, and sudden floods can drown divers in an instant. With a two-decade obsession, William Stone and his 44-member team entered the sinkhole at Sotano de San Augustin. The first camp settled 2,328 feet below ground in a cavern where headlamps couldn't even illuminate the walls and ceiling. The second camp teetered precariously above an underground canyon where two subterranean rivers collided. But beyond that lay the unknown territory -- a flooded corridor that had blocked all previous comers, claimed a diver's life, and drove the rest of the team back. Except for William Stone and Barbara am Ende, who forged on for 18 more days, with no hope of rescue, to set the record for the deepest cave dive in the Western Hemisphere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

BILL STONE is the world's most accomplished caver invented the Cis-Lunar rebreather enabling cave divers to stay underwater for up to 24 hrs. BARBARA AM ENDE has a Ph.D in geology and is a member of the National Speleological Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grand Central Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0446527092
• ISBN 13: 9780446527095
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
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