Spelunking / Rock ClimbingSpelunking is the recreational sport of exploring wild caves. Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up or across natural rock formations or man-made rock walls.
Just read an interesting article, seems like they discovered a cave in Vietnam that is tall enough in parts to accommodate a sky scraper. The interesting part is it contains a river and jungle, there are even thin clouds. Just goes to show how diverse our planet is.
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A river and a jungle within a cave? It doesn't even seem possible! But then, it doesn't seem possible for there to be life a mile below the surface of the ocean, and that has been found, too!
Amazing, indeed! When I read the title I sort of suspected that it was man-made probably during the Word War 2. But the article mentioned stalactites so I guess it's a real cave, huh?
I was in a cave once in Missouri, near Branson, that had a giant cavern that would have housed a small football stadium. It was only about ten stories high but it looked pretty big to me.