
National Geographic: Mysteries Underground
- Year:
- 1992
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It all begins with water and rock.
it becomes acidic.
And when it flows over limestone,
it etches a path into the rock.
Given eons of time,
water will burrow and carve,
with incredible force,
the veins and arteries of planet Earth
So the underworld of caves is born.
their work,
patient drops do more wonders
Look now on a landscape no one dreamed
existed just a few years ago.
Here are bizarre and
fantastic treasures that stun the eye
and strain the imagination.
Here is discovery and danger.
Here is adventure.
In New Mexico, members of a
National Geographic Society expedition
explore the world's newest
They are following one of man's
most ancient imperatives
to see and understand the unknown.
Join us now as we embark on
an extraordinary journey
deep into the earth
to confront MYSTERIES UNDERGROUND.
In the Guadalupe Mountains
of southern New Mexico,
an awesome giant has lain hidden
for a million years.
Sometimes, in the desert silence,
the monster could be heard breathing.
The sound came from a yawning chasm
in the rocks.
In 1986 a trio of weekend explorers
broke through a layer of rubble
and discovered a new cave
only a few miles
Although the cave entrance lay inside
Carlsbad Caverns National Park,
park officials allowed qualified
cavers to explore it.
One of them was Rick Bridges,
an oil and gas prospector.
Now Bridges leads
a hand-picked team of experts,
like rock climber Dave Jones,
on the 25th expedition to Lechuguilla.
You got the survey gear, Anne?
Research geologist Kiym Cunningham
will handle the science studies
for the expedition.
Nuclear test engineer Anne Strait
is an expert
in surveying and mapping caves.
And specialist cameraman from England,
Sid Perou,
will be the first to document
Lechuguilla on motion picture film.
The journey begins
with a deceptively ordinary hike.
The cave is named after a desert plant
that grows in this harsh,
dry environment-Lechuguilla-Spanish
for little lettuce.
Forty people will support the venture,
including two support teams
to pack in supplies
and batteries for photographic lights.
On high rope.
We tend to have this feeling that
the surface of the earth
is the life of the earth.
But we're just this small,
thin little shell that we choose
to call our world,
and beneath it there's an entire realm
that we know very little about.
And we can, if we choose,
enter that realm and
we can learn something from it.
I will never go to the moon,
but I can go to a cave
the nobody else has been to
and have the same elation
of exploration in the sense
that I have gone where
no one's gone before.
Bombs away.
I would have been an explorer.
You know,
had I lived in the late 1700s,
I would have wanted to know what
was across the Appalachian Mountains.
If I'd been around when Lewis
and Clark went to the coast,
I'd liked to have gone with them,
you know.
And I think most people that cave
at this level and do this kind
of exploration feel that way.
Here, Bridges and his companions
excavated to break into Lechuguilla
for the first time.
Now the entrance is protected
by a lockable hatchway.
Through this tiny aperture
the cave breathes
blowing air out or sucking
it in to equalize with the
barometric pressure above ground.
Winds up to 60 miles
an hour howl out of here,
hinting at the vast underworld below.
Today, this is Lechuguilla's
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