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Let's try to do a Countdown to Karstmas! Every day I will post one of my cave photography images. If you'd like to enjoy them along with me, follow me or at least follow #karstmas which I just made up and will be using.
To start off I'll share this photo of SΓ³tano de las Golondrinas, often referred to as simply Golondrinas, which is a very deep pit in AquismΓ³n (Mexico). The rappel is 1200 feet (365 m), straight down. No breaks, just one long rope. It was, at least at the time I did it, the deepest cave single pitch rappel in the world. I think it still holds that record - there are deeper, but not that can be done as a single rope, straight down, no rebelays or deviations.
This image of mine has been *widely* stolen and used, usually by travel companies. They are screenshot images of my work, with my watermark cropped out. You have probably seen this image if you were ever on Facebook, it makes the rounds almost annually on "best of" type pages. Despite it's popularity, I've barely made any money off of this, but others certainly have!
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Let's try to do a Countdown to Karstmas! Every day I will post one of my cave photography images. If you'd like to enjoy them along with me, follow me or at least follow #karstmas which I just made up and will be using.
To start off I'll share this photo of SΓ³tano de las Golondrinas, often referred to as simply Golondrinas, which is a very deep pit in AquismΓ³n (Mexico). The rappel is 1200 feet (365 m), straight down. No breaks, just one long rope. It was, at least at the time I did it, the deepest...
@sunguramy this is incredible.
@sunguramy fantastic.
I couldn't grasp the scale of the photo until reading the alt text. There are more people in the picture, just too small a scale to be visible?!! π€―
@sunguramy That's a big abseil - what descender/abseil device did you use to deal with the weight of the rope? And did you have to change device or the way you used it at some stage in the descent?