Carlsbad Caves and a Camera

Travel

Nymeyer, Robert

Mexico

Cave Books

Geological Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park

This book explains the geology and origin of the caves in Mammoth Cave National Park and how they relate to the landscape of the surrounding region. It is intended mainly for non-geologists, although the field information and ideas are detailed and accurate enough to be of scientific as well.

Palmer, Arthur N.

Science & Math

Written by a geologist who has been closely involved with the exploration, mapping and geological interpretation of caves through out America and Europe. Contains over 100 black and white maps and photos and sketches of Mammoth Cave. 14 chapters with list of illustrations

Arthur N. Palmer

Speleology the Study of Caves

George W. Moore

In The Jewel Cave Adventure Herb and Jan Conn trace the early history of Jewel Cave (discovered around 1900) and describe exploration before 1959. Then they tell with humor of the day the little cave took possession of them, and with quiet excitement of how that day in Jewel Cave led to nearly two decades of dedicated exploration and mapping--accomplished by Herb and Jan and with small groups of friends--during which the cave grew to over 50 miles of the most intricate three-dimensional networks of underground passages in the world. Fifteen excellent maps--including a giant folded map--guide the reader through the maze as the cave is extended mile by mile. 
Herb and Jan are originals. They built their stone house against a rock wall, and made their living by playing the guitar, lecturing, and swinging on a rope to clean off the faces on Mount Rushmore. Their humor is as wild as their adventures. Herb and Jan will introduce you to the marvels of a world underground few people could imagine. 
 The Jewel Cave Adventure is also the story of Herb and Jan Conn. Unassumingly, they describe the rigors and joys of two lives dedicated to an unconventional goal.

Jewel Cave Adventure: Fifty Miles of Discovery in South Dakota

Conn, Jan

Conn, Herbert

This is an immense volume that brings together a number of papers that led to and emerged from the work of the Cave Research Foundation over a period of about fifteen years. Origins is loaded with information for anybody interested in cave exploration, research, science, archeology, geology, and the beginnings and early history of the CRF--one of the most successful voluntary cave research organizations in the world. It also contains the first 10 years worth of CRF Annual Reports. These reports show vividly and graphically how the scientific work, through trials and tribulations, grew and evolved into the cave science of today. 
Nowhere else is this amount of information available in one place. It is one of those books that no matter how many times you pick it up and read it, you will always find something else you hadn't read before. A must for any cave book collection.

The Cave Research Foundation: Origins and the 1st 12 Years 1957-1968

Watson, Richard A.

Reference

On September 9, 1972, a team of six cavers, five men and one woman, enter Unknown Cave through the Austin Entrance within the Flint Ridge Cave System in Kentucky. Their goal is to follow a newly found passage, if possible, to the end. Fourteen and a half hours later their dream comes true as they emerge in Mammoth Cave, over seven miles away, connecting these two caves into one, making it the longest cave in the world. The Grand Kentucky Junction is the story of that final trip as told by those who were there, including Thomas Brucker, who was not, but who only days before had discovered the passage that leads this team to Mammoth Cave. 
 The Grand Kentucky Junction is the companion book to The Longest Cave. This is the second chapter in an exciting story that began over 40 years ago with the idea of connecting these two cave systems. Once connected, the Flint/Mammoth Cave System totaled 144.4 miles in length. This magnificent achievement has been compared to the conquest of Everest.

The Grand Kentucky Junction: Memoirs

Patricia Crowther

This is the gripping account of the history and exploration of Mexico's most dangerous and challenging river cave, Sumidero Yochib, located in a remote valley in the highlands of Chiapas, southern Mexico. 
 The exploration takes place from the spring of 1974 through the spring of 1977 and is possible only during a few dry months each winter and spring. This is a descriptive volume of the almost unbelievable exploits of Steele and his companions exploring a cave prone to frequent flooding, and containing almost two dozen sheer drops as much as 45 meters deep. Well-drafted maps in each chapter guide the reader through the action taking place, whether it is the near drowning of team members, the horror of being trapped in a flooded cave, or the thrill of the first one down a waterfall.

Yochib: The River Cave

Steele, C. William

This is the gripping account of the history and exploration of Mexico's most dangerous and challenging river cave, Sumidero Yochib, located in a remote valley in the highlands of Chiapas, southern Mexico.  The exploration takes place from the spring of 1974 through the spring of 1977 and is possible only during a few dry months each winter and spring. This is a descriptive volume of the almost unbelievable exploits of Steele and his companions exploring a cave prone to frequent flooding, and containing almost two dozen sheer drops as much as 45 meters deep. Well-drafted maps in each chapter guide the reader through the action taking place, whether it is the near drowning of team members, the horror of being trapped in a flooded cave, or the thrill of the first one down a waterfall.

William C. Steele

Cave Research Foundation 1969 1973

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Carlsbad Caves and a Camera

Geological Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park

Geological Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park

Speleology the Study of Caves

Jewel Cave Adventure: Fifty Miles of Discovery in South Dakota

The Cave Research Foundation: Origins and the 1st 12 Years 1957-1968

The Grand Kentucky Junction: Memoirs

Yochib: The River Cave

Yochib: The River Cave

Cave Research Foundation 1969 1973