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Summary: Corridors in a cave can be misleading and may shift over time; learn about spelunking (exploring caves) and natural facts about caves in this free video.
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Laszlo Turi Laszlo Turi is a caving expert who resides in Budapest, Hungary and has explored a variety of caves for many years. read more
Hello my name is Laszlo and we are going in this matteous cave which is under the Buda hill and I will teach you about caving. Some corridors that you find yourself in you don't know if it is the real floor of the cave or the ceiling because sometimes if there is a corridor and there are some rocks falling down from the ceiling and get stuck in the middle and you go under it you see a ceiling above your head but it is not the real ceiling. So in this way it sometimes happens that the people are going along the rocks but it is not the bottom of the corridor, it is some rocks in the middle so under the rocks there is the same corridor which used to be the same one but because of rocks it has become separated. So it is tricky because as cavers start getting a new cave, they don't know where they are and they go down deeper or higher or whatever so it is a very tricky part. Before you go in a cave don't go alone and don't go without any guide. It is very very important. It is dangerous.