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Photographing an expedition in the deepest cave in America.

This past July, a group of core American cavers spent 10 days exploring and mapping remote alpine caves in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. With a surveyed depth of 1,659 ft, “Tears of the Turtle” is the deepest cave in the continental U.S. It is the first 500-meter deep limestone cave in the U.S.A.,…

An excellent adventure in Laos. Packrafting the Xe Bang Fai river cave.

Last winter Claire and I were caving and packrafting in Northern Thailand. When some friendly cavers, at the cave lodge in Sappong, told us we needed to take are Kokopelli boats to the giant Xe Bang Fai ( Tham Khoun Xe ) river cave in Laos. A week or so later we rolled into the…