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second rope, just in case. He also suggests packing a flashlight, candles, and waterproof matches to back up the carbide head lamp spelunkers wear.
On his explorations, Mohr eats food concentrates and wears non-slip boots, clothing that won’t snag, and gloves. He also carries lightweight wire ladders, pitons, and mooring pins.
Searches for Troglobionts
Mohr is a specialized caver, whose journeys underground enable him to study the strange troglobionts, the often blind and colorless insects, salamanders, fish, and other specimens who live where there is little or no daylight.
Novice spelunkers start with “tame” holes, the 200 or more public caverns from Anemone Cave at Acadia National Park, in Maine, to Lava Beds National Monument at Tulelake, California.
At Mammoth Cave National Park, in Kentucky, they can ride boats on Echo River, 360 feet beneath the surface of the Earth. And in New Mexico’s vast Carlsbad Caverns, Park Service guides escort visitors on three-mile, underground hikes.
Skilled spelunkers, however, prefer to worm, crawl, and climb through the mysterious blackness of less traveled caves in quest of what may lie beyond the next turn, at the bottom of the next pit, or just out of lantern reach.
Mohr quotes Bill Vamedoe, who in 1961 was a co-discoverer of the 426-foot-deep Surprise Pit in Fem Cave, Alabama, on the lure of spelunking. Vamedoe, $ rocket engineer, says:
“Most of us can only dream of going into orbit. But tomorrow any of us could be standing where no man has ever been before-in a new cave.”
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