Blind Descent

"The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for
centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made. This is the
story of the men and women who risked everything to find it, earning their
place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary and
Armstrong.

In 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the
world. Bold, American Bill Stone was committed to the vast Cheve Cave, located
in southern Mexico and deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of
the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchouk - Stone's opposite
in temperament and style - had targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a
supercave in the Republic of Georgia.

Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the
timeless human urge to discover - to be first. It is also a thrilling epic
about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration
pale by comparison. These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two
vertical miles deep and many more miles from their caves' exits. They had to
contend with thousand-foot drops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater
rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, and much more. Perhaps
even worse were the psychological horrors produced by weeks plunged into
absolute, perpetual darkness, beyond all hope of rescue, including a
particularly insidious derangement called 'The Rapture'.

Blind Descent is a testament to human survival and endurance - and to
two extraordinary men whose relentless pursuit of greatness led them to heights
of triumph and depths of tragedy neither could have imagined."