A team of Australian cavers have discovered the country’s deepest underground chamber, and at 401 metres (1,316 feet) underground, it breaks the previous record by four metres.
As part of a decade-long mission to unravel the mysteries of Australia’s deepest caves, nine elite cavers from the Southern Tasmanian Caverneers went underground on an expedition that wasn’t guaranteed to pay off.
“The cave was exceptionally strenuous. It was extremely vertical, requiring hundreds of metres to be ascended and descended on ropes,” team member Ben Armstrong told the Epoch Times.
“Water levels were high, and placing the final ropes required some very creative improvisation.”…