My coveralls were ripped and splattered with mud; but then, that was all supposed to be part of the fun. Fun? With these rewards, cave exploring will never be a chic sport. But its devotees ...

The fate of 40 Mississippian cave drawings in unknown after historic flooding at Dunbar Cave last month. The drawings are ...

At the moment you have to crawl through and get over mud that washed in during the Ice Age,” he said. “The formations in this ...

mud-caked ropes that help guide us through myriad passages known in caving argot as “squeezes,” “meanders,” and “shafts.” These passages have already been mapped, but as we crawl up ...