World's biggest cave revealed By AIDAN RADNEDGE - Thursday, April 30, 2009 It looks like something from an Indiana Jones film. But for a team of British cavers, trekking through the jungle for six hours to find these giant caves was no screen test.
Perilous: A caver inches across a swirling underground river Climbing down into a large chamber, they had to negotiate two underground rivers before reaching the huge opening. They now believe they have located the world's largest cave passage. Measuring 200m high (650ft) and 150m (500ft) wide, the Vietnamese cave, called Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave), is believed to be almost twice the size of the Malaysian record holder. Small: A team member is dwarfed 'It is a truly amazing sized cave and one of the most significant discoveries by a British caving team,' said member Adam Spillane. 'The cave is 6.5km [four miles] long at present but the end of the main passage still continues with a calcite wall of over 45m [150ft] high halting our progress.' The cave was originally discovered in 1991 by a Vietnamese jungle man called Ho Khanh. But he'd never been inside until this year because of the frightening noise from an underground river. The joint British-Vietnamese expedition team spent five days exploring the cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and is due to return later in the year to complete the survey. _http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Worlds_biggest_cave_revealed&in_ar ticle_id=643070&in_page_id=34&in_a_source_ (http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Worlds_biggest_cave_revealed&in_article_id=643070&in_page_id=34&in_ a_source) = **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003)
