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Title: Blind Descent
Subtitle: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
Author: James Tabor
Narrator: Don Leslie
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
Language: English
Release date: 06-15-10
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 271 votes
Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration
Publisher's Summary:
The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earths deepest cavethe supercaveremained undiscovered. This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find it, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong.
In 2004, two great scientist-explorers are attempting to find the bottom of the world. Bold, heroic American Bill Stone is committed to the vast Cheve Cave, located in southern Mexico and deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander KlimchoukStones polar opposite in temperament and style, but every bit his equal in scientific expertise, physical bravery, and sheer determinationhas targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia, where underground dangers are compounded by the horrors of separatist war in this former Soviet republic.
Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discoverto be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration pale by comparison.
Critic Reviews:
"Holds the reader to his seat, containing dangers aplenty with deadly falls, killer microbes, sudden burial, asphyxiation, claustrophobia, anxiety, and hallucinations far underneath the ground in a lightless world. Using a pulse-pounding narrative, this is tense real-life adventure pitting two master cavers mirroring the cold war with very uncommonly high stakes." (
Publishers Weekly)
