Imagine dangling from a rope 'higher than tallest part of Sydney Harbour Bridge' — in the dark. Add to that squeezing through rocky gaps, deep underground. That's what a group of explorers are planning to do in order to prove Australia has a new deepest cave in southern Tasmania.
"Each trip we're limited in terms of how many ropes we can carry because they're heavy and there are squeezes and only so many people," Ms Smart said.
"It's a highly vertical cave, so we're lucky in this area of Tasmania, a lot of our caves are very vertical because they're formed by water slowly dissolving the limestone," Ms Smart said. "But it's extra intimidating because you can't see the bottom of the rope because everything is dark in the cave, there's no light."Ms Smart said the exploration process had been exciting because the team did not know what they would find.
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