We went alone into Deep Pit Cave, one of the most remote and vertical cave systems we've ever explored. With no one else around, just our gear and the silence of the underground, we descended into ...

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A deep pit cave is brutal even with a team, but alone it becomes something else entirely. The descent keeps going, and the silence gets heavier with every meter of rope. At the bottom, there’s no ...