Matt Ewles says rescue incidents give caving a bad reputation After an arduous 30-hour operation to save three men trapped underground highlighted the potential perils of caving, some may question its ...

Every year as young athletes start lifting programs in high schools, there is one common issue with teenage boys and girls: knee caving during weighted and non-weighted squats and lunges. You ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive explain the risks of caving and essential safety precautions.

For Ethan Reuter and his brother, Ian, caving is closer to a lifestyle than a hobby. And though both are in school, they're underground every weekend. You probably spend your weekends trying new bars ...

BYRON, Minn. — Underneath the rolling farmland in southeast Minnesota, there's a lot to be learned about soil conservation. If you're not afraid of getting stuck. Living and working in Fillmore County ...

In the absolute darkness 333 feet beneath Tennessee's Cardwell Mountain, I am belly-crawling through a passage barely wider than my shoulders, headlamp cutting through blackness so complete it seems ...

This story is part of a series. View the other stories here. Mountains aren’t just solid stone. Beneath their austere foundation, spaces wind deep into the earth — places people have long explored.

At first, it just looks like a medium-size hole in the ground—only with a rectangular metal door attached. I look closer and clearly it is a barred gate, padlocked. Past the rusted metal frame, I ...

Out of the ordinary mountaineering in Slovenia: Luca Vallata recalls the ascent, carried out together with Matteo Rivadossi and Andrea Tocchini, of one of the longest and most continuous ice climbs in ...

No great surprise, then, that caving in limestone regions is considered a wet and risky business. "Hypothermia is our greatest danger," explains Klimchouk. In the Krubera Cave, for example, the ...