Use code ‘MAGNUS’ for 15% off at Rúngne ▶︎ https://rungne.info/magnus Check out the Cavers: Alex: @CantrellCaving Jacob: @Mineral_dude Gustavo: @ghostofpigeon Zach TikTok: @zmurr_ay Shot and Edited by Sam Tuck https://www.instagram.com/samtuclimbing The deepest cave in America (this cave has claimed lives) - Magnus Midtbø Music and Sound Effects: http://share.epidemicsound.com/vSnfn
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The award for bravest man goes to the CAMERAMAN. He did everything everyone else did, but while filming, thinking about camera settings, keeping the camera dry, getting cool shots, etc... Amazing. Bravo!
The best part about caving is that you dont have to do it
Bro was done going up, and decided to go down
2 rules of caving:- 1) Don't go caving 2) Always remember rule 1
The fact that a small hole in the ground in the forest leads to this beautiful death trap scares the living shit out of me
"you are not the chess guy?" is just such a funny throwaway line
My biggest question is, how the hell did someone map out this place to begin with? IMAGINE being the first person going through those tight and narrow passages, without having any clue what comes next.
Magnus....youre insane
The Dad Lore this guy is gonna have is crazy
Some fun info for the general public! ... - this cave has been known of for hundreds of years but was not explored in depth untill the 1970s. - this cave has the deepest continuous pit in the continental United States, Fantastic Pit at 586', which is what Magnus rappelled. - if i remember correctly this cave has over 12 miles of documented passages. - no one fell off of the first drop of 125' and survived with broken legs. That fall would kill you. However, a caver did fall very near this drop, but he fell roughly 40' while ascending in a completely different area, on an old rope that he was unsure of the age or condition and it snapped. - this cave is a vertical playground! There are many very large pits in this cave. I think there are roughly 8 pits with a depth over 250'. - there is no real risk of flash flooding in the cave. It would take a biblical flood that would be world ending for that cave to significantly "flood". The water has cut deeper over millions of years and will NEVER reach certain levels ever again. - the real risk of water in this cave is when you are on rope. When water levels are high at the waterfalls, it can quickly exhaust you while climbing and you have the risk of becoming hypothermic and going to sleep, permanently, while dangling under a crushing and cold unrelenting torrent of water. - every person who died in this cave made mistakes along the way. You can't make mistakes in caving, they kill. It was obvious that Magnus was not taught his to properly use his gear. I don't think he knows how close he was to killing himself by accident. When using a bar rack to rappell you NEVER pick up and feed rope up aggressively, as he was doing, because it could potentially undo the bars of the bar rack and the last thing you hear will be "ping, ping" of the bars coming loose as you start to fall to your death. - those are not bullet holes. Those are holes left behind from drilling bolts into the rock.
1:48 if the cave guides i literally just met are telling me we're in prime flash flood conditions, there is no amount of money in the world that's taking me down that cave.
First the free soloing with Alex Honnold and now this. I believe I can peer pressure this man into diving down the marina trench with a snorkel.
It was a pleasure to be able to take you on an adventure 😎🤠🦎
bro I would be PISSED if they started joking about how much worse it gets while you're barely holding back the anxiety in the middle of a long tight crawl
Seeing how difficult that was for Magnus, I would say that 99.99 percent of people shouldn't even think about attempting it.
Cave divers when they see a cave called "Satan's wrinkly dih" with a 2,000,000% death rate: 😍🤩
The first people to go in, without knowing there was another exit, were psychopaths, imagine going through all those massive descents and tight squeezes without knowing if you would be able to do them backwards.
34 minutes of anxiety, thanks Magnus
It was a pleasure meeting and Caving with y'all! Also, the camera man never dies!!!
"there is a tornado warning" "so many people have died in this cave" "High chance of rain" "super saturated water" "If it floods we are cooked" "no one has survived this fall" *Still decides to go in