Previous video in the series - trvid.com/video/video-1AgHqJ_oekg.html Hey everyone! Thank you all so much for watching! As a quick FYI, the image at 15:58 is not a real image. Also, hello to all of the new subscribers! Glad to have you here and that you're enjoying the content! *Edit* According to RS Stewart of the Jamaican Caves Organisation who posted down in the comments, the decomposing bodies may not give off deadly gases after all. Here is the link to his channel - trvid.com/show-UCW_O6s9ShR9lIFLJNSmRKOg - He's got some very cool videos of the caves in that area
I don’t understand, if his wife and kids were in so she and knew that he was going to go down the cave, why did they not called authorities and let them know to go and rescue him?
@Mein Schmerz Bro, America is the most powerful nation on earth. We decide what you use. Now learn the american system lol. If you want to conquer the world you can decide what measurement system to use.
PLEASE use the metric system and...if you must freedom units. Its annoying that i have to calculate that all the time just because americans think they are alone on this planet. yeah but i like the video and your style. keep up the good work.
i cannot even begin to fathom the mind of that man. he hiked up a mountain in the Caucuses in the winter to the worlds deepest cave, by himself, without telling anyone where he was going. then went down into the cave for days in total solitude and darkness. it's utterly brainless how he went about it but the sheer confidence and willpower he had is just incredible to me.
You cannot comprehend minds of advanced people, being weakling consumer little ape with smartphone in one hand and hamburger in other, chilling in your parents household. Its natural. But you cant even do pullup
Honestly, what do you think is in a cave that's so worth exploring, especially on your own, that you'd leave your wife and kids behind and not tell anyone where you were going? I was always told as a kid, if I ever decide to go ANYWHERE, tell people where you're going, so they can find you.
This is insane. I never realized caves can grow vertically like this. In my naive perspective of a regular visitor, I always perceived them as predominantly horizontal affairs. 😅
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Why people want to crawl into these deep holes and risk getting lost or trapped in the dark is beyond my understanding. It is fascinating to watch other people take the risk.
Thanks, I have been down a few pothole in UK, but this would freak me out. I think the gap in explorations was possibly the first Chechen war, and access to the area would be difficult. I climbed Elbrus in 1995, and we were one of the last groups to get into the area, even then it was full of Russian troops, it was many years before you could get in there again. I was amazed at the time seeing Russians climbing in the Caucasus, with very limited equipment, and we heard of one missing party, we had 2 weeks of climbing in the Caucasus, and saw many Russian teams.
Hi, you did a great job with this video. I knew nothing about these incidents and your story telling drew me in. It was really intense wondering about how the stories would end. Dying in a cave is the same fate as being buried alive in my opinion.
After some amateur caving, when I was a student, I can appreciate what expeditions of this kind must be like. The isolation and simply the impossibility of getting out quickly means this is like going to another planet. The planning and equipment must be extraordinary.
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Descending into a cave like that gives me stress, just watching the presentation! It gives me claustrophobia I did not even know I had! Great presentation!
There are three very important things that can be learned from Sergei's unfortunately death. 1: You should always tell someone where you're going if you're exploring someplace remote, no matter how experienced of an outdoorsman you are. 2. Always make sure you pack the right equipment for the trip to ensure your survival, do your research. 3. Perhaps the most important, never and I mean NEVER go on a cave expedition alone! I can't even begin to imagine how horrible it'd be to die like that; cold, alone and in pitch black darkness so cut off from the rest of the world. Just imagine how many people have died like this and have never been found.
Remember listening to a guided canyon tour by Aron Rolston (real guy "127 Hours" movie was based on) and he said #1 was his biggest take: he made sure to ALWAYS tell someone how to reach him or where he would be when he went hiking or climbing after that terrible ordeal. And he stresses that to everyone he gives talks to who get interested in hiking and exploring, because had he let people know what he was doing, he might have been found before he had to give himself surgery.
In a sense he kinda brought it upon himself, like you are right my dude but if you are that under-prepared AND not telling anyone AND alone with no help what so ever, welp you know you have it coming when you get stuck
could you just imagine that moment Sergie realized he forgot the ascenders...Really feel bad for him, not a great decision to go alone. But seems hardly deserving of a Darwin award. Too bad he couldn't figure out a rope cinch for his feet, to use as a makeshift ascender, or at least , a drop stop kinda slipknot to rest feet on while ascending.
I know it's easy for me to say from the comfort of home and having never gone cave exploring, btw this video was compelling and watchable good narration and music, but I'd never risk it to do this. After seeing that YT called 'Buried Alive: The Nutty Putty Cave Incident' in which it shows how 26 year old John Edward Jones took a wrong turn in one of the extremely narrow passages and got stuck upside down for 23 hours with rescue efforts all around him and they still couldn't get him out. What a miserable way to go with all of that time to think of what you will lose he had a beautiful wife and baby daughter. The passages were 10 inches wide so he had to crawl and squeeze hard to get through some areas. And for what? They ended up sealing that cave up permanently so that no one would attempt it again risking the lives of rescuers. And he's still in there.
The biggest irony here is that to get into the cave, you have to go up a 7500 foot mountain--which means that even once you are at the deepest point of the cave, you are still higher up than when you started.
For whatever reason hearing that it was 7,000ft deep didn't sound too bad to me. Then when I heard you say immediately afterwards that you need thousands of feet of rope to descend it that's when it hit me.
So, is there a transportation system that cavers and miners can install behind them for quick transport of equipment, supplies and samples without having couriers climbing up and down?
I can’t imagine the fear he felt before he went to sleep for the last time. He was wet and freezing unable to get himself back up to the camp likely knowing he wasn’t going to get back out of that cave. He probably thought of his family who would never know what happened to him or where to even begin looking for him. I hope he didn’t suffer for long.
@TiredAllTheTime I don't think he thought of his family at all bc he didn't initially think of them before setting out to do this foolishness. You don't maverick this type of thing and if he had any common sense, he'd have some sort of idea of the risks. He shouldn't have done it knowing he had a family to get back to. That being said I wouldn't have wanted this outcome for him.
@Shadow Of The Lone Wolf wrong tht shit starts to hurt and you feel like you're being stabbed all over it was actually said burning is a better way then freezing to death
In Sergei's case you might want to read Jon Krackauer's book "Into the Wild". The guy in the book was much like Sergei. Would do solo trips for extended periods. When he died in Alaska he had refused to bring maps. If he had, he would have known that there was a Ranger Station not far from him and he would have survived. The thing is people get into a mindset of "I got away with it this time, I can do it again." Read Laurence Gonzales book "Deep Survival: Who lives, Who dies, and why." Had a guy talking about doing a long hike, handed him this book and told him to read it. Mindset kills faster than the equipment you have or don't have.
Back in the 70s I survived food poisoning and thought I was invincible for nearly a year. Then a drug deal went bad and I realized I wasn't as invincible as I thought I was.
Isn't Krackauer the guy who shat on the rescue effort of Anatoli Boukreev on Everest in a book, after being rescued by Boukreev and sleeping in a tent through the exact same situation..?
One thing people overlook in Christopher McCandless' case is he died from eating poisonous plants, but the survival books he had said the plants were safe to eat. And they were for part of the year. They just happen to be out of season and toxic when he was eating them which the books he had failed to mention. It was stupid of him to go alone without telling anyone, but that didn't cost him his life. Incorrect information did. Not sure if the map would have saved him after eating the plants, either, but he definitely would have had a better shot.
Mad respect to the Russian guy who managed to carry a stove and other equipments through that torrential whirlpool of water and emerged at the other end without any scratch. Such a badass!
@Anna Yes, when the temperature is low enough to potentially bring on hypothermia and youve just climbed through water and mud? That stove was beyond essential! The man saved lives.
I found it comical that the russian guy carried 20+lbs of gear worth a few hundred dollars while the American left behind a few lbs of gear worth over ten thousand.. and the americans had atleast an hours head start
I've been stuck in a flooding cave before. We came back to a pitch that was probably a 10m single rope upclimb but was completely dry when we climbed down. Single rope climbing gear is designed so that once you're on the rope, the only way is up. Thankfully my climbing lead at the time was a level headed person and stopped one of my team's panicking caver from clipping himself onto the rope and attempting to climb a waterfall. He explained that two weeks before, two people died doing exactly the same thing after the first person started drowning halfway up on the rope - the second caver died after attempting to help the first one. They were both recovered still hanging halfway up the rope/pitch a few days later when the water receded. We had to take an alternative route and waited it out on the highest part of the cave. But we saw that the water mark went all the way up to the ceiling. We had to brave it and get the heck out of there through an alternative section which included us having to duck our heads almost completely underwater only with our noses and torches sticking out to get to the next chamber. We had to do this a few times as it was a series of chambers. The water was still rising at this point and the last time I had to duck my head under I had to hold my breath for what felt like a very long time. Basically if we stayed and waited it out and it rained any much stronger I would not be here. Those hours were the longest in my life, felt like I was stuck in that dark hole for a year. Fuck caving and rain.
i just came home from a caving trip in slovenia. my Colleg broke his arm 100meter under ground and around 400meters inside. Was a hard time getting him out, trough the tunnels where you just can crawl on all four and a lot of acsends
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i feel like the fact that it was sandy where they set up camp was a good indication that water was no stranger to that area, thats how the sand got there in the first place.
It would be good to show measures in other metric systems as well.Not all your audience is familiar or interested converting feet - inches - gallons - miles etc
Listening to the "main story" of the original cave explorers with the water gushing in was HORRIFYING!!! I was so worried for them the entire time and the fact they made it out alive was AMAZING, especially the guy carrying 4 sleeping bags and half a kitchen - after the ordeal he just sat and had a cup of tea and was LAUGHING?!!! MANIAC!
laughing is a response to everything tbh😭 i broke my leg and I started laughing… then crying shortly after. same with my sister, tripped over a chain and hyper extended her knee and she started laughing and crying at the same time and pulled out her phone to take pictures and record 😂
So it's a cave that's well over a mile deep, inside a mountain that's essentially the same height? So you keep descending into a massive well that's bottom is 50 stories above the beginning of your climb? I don't know why that feels like it takes away from the sense of descending into the earth, but it does.
What do they call the fear of Caves? Well that's definitely my phobia. I find this story fascinating and frightening all at once. The narrator and the echoes from the music make it even more intensely riveting. Goosebumps all the way!!! Great video! Thanks for sharing this.
imagine the initial explorers that mapped down Old perovo branch in 86 100 or so meters down. Then hey! there is another branch i wonder how far down that one goes...oh, just another 2000+ m
Hang on a minute….. you said this cave is 7000 feet deep, but you need to climb 7500 feet to get to the entrance of it. So even at the bottom of the cave you are still 500 feet above ground level. Am I missing something here……
My big question is this: If you’re all the way down at Cave 6, what happens if your flashlights and backups run out of juice? There’s no natural light that far down, only artificial. So you would be stuck thousands of feet underground and keep in mind this cave system is not just vertical it’s horizontal and also winding. You wouldn’t be able to see your hand just inches from your face. How would you get out? Answer #1 You wouldn’t make it out. Answer #2 You better pray someone finds you before you die. My reason for posting this is I see nothing nice or glorifying about being a caver. Also when exploring caves you have to worry about the caves being low in oxygen and possibly filled with pockets of dangerous gases like Carbon Monoxide. So if you ever think about being a caver, please remember what I’ve said, and consider the consequences.
I wondered about the air, is it breathable for those cave climbers or do they have to bring air tanks or what? At what point or depth does the air get unbreathable or what I don't know anything about that.
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The first part of the story was interesting. The quick thinking of the whole team was neat. The sergei guy on the other hand, what a dumbass xD. What a stupid way to die.
That must be one of the most terrifying death experiences. Being alone in the cold darkness slowly realizing that you're going to either starve to death or have to commit suicide. Imagine the frustration, panic, and despair when he was trying to climb back out but his feet kept slipping... no one deserves that regardless of how stupid it was to go in.
@BaSiC47 it so is a nationality thing. you don't see the same sort of retardation coming out of countries like Japan for example - because people that live there are educated.. in fact, they are some of the most educated people in the world.
I've done something similar. Had a big job to do and stressed out over a period of time trying to make sure I have every tool, every single thing I'd ever need. I wanted to have everything to the smallest detail right. And all that thinking made me forget the most basic tool I needed that threw a wrench into the entire project.
@yyz It's so nice to finally meet a perfect person. I knew that there had to be at least ONE out of the eight-billion of us that are on the planet. Finally, if only over the Internet, I have found a perfect person, @yyz! How wonderful!
This is so terrifyingly amazing, as someone with a huge fear of heights, I can't imagine what it's like hanging from a rope while being meters underground 'seeing' the massive depths of the caves.
I can only imagine the unparalleled fear hearing then seeing the water pouring/flooding down, WHEN YOURE ALREADY 6,800 FEET DOWN A CAVE. The fact that people even went 7,200 feet underground in a CAVE is mental. Then again, we literally have been on the moon. Humans are nuts.
@Deez Boyeed These might not be conspiracy theorists. They might be shell accounts of state actors fomenting mutual disgust. This is the global internet.
@taleandclaw rock not necessarily so when it comes to engineering and manufacturing especially for aerospace components you can actually loose the tools and people who knew how to arrange those said tools in order for the project or item to be manufactured/completed
There's an interview of Stanley Kubrick admitting he filmed the moon landing in a sound stage. NASA is run by freemasons that lie. The world is truly a stage.
You ignorantly say to yourself I'd like to do that BUT since watching a number of these cave expeditions you quickly gain a deep [excuse the pun] and profound respect and fear [well I did] NEVER to venture into something like that alone. I went on a guided tour of the Jenolan Caves New South Wales Australia and when we arrived at a certain area with a lot of warning they switched of the lights...... I never want to experience that again. The darkness is deafening and frightening.
drtydawg I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. I got it in my about tab.
The moment you mentioned that 5 more lights could be seen was the first time I teared up from relief while watching your videos, the entire team is amazing for how they dealt with the situation and it's great to know that everyone made it out.
Thank you for being one of the only disaster/tragedy channels with actual dynamic narrative ability. Seriously. Some drone on almost unbearably, thinking their voices have to sound as grim as the content. Others get caught in the same inflection loops through the whole video. Narration really is a talent. Thanks for having it. Cheers!
@Drew I agree as I never knew what it was called. This is where the narrator speaks with an increase in tone and then starts all over after so many words??
This is so true! I've seen some vids where the narrator spends the entire vid sounding like Vincent Price in Thriller. It became a matter of endurance to watch until the end.
@Perinne absolutely not. It's impossible. I suggest you get sourced from anywhere but TRvid. Let's imagine for a sec i believe the same thing. It would be impossibly expensive to run a global team to keep people from finding out. You'd need to spend so many resources faking moon travel, satellites and all the telescopes in the world. etc Keep an open mind but not so open your brain spills out. Hope you learn the real problem in this reality and that under our laws of physics in this universe.
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Sadly a few years later the groups leader Pavel Demidov died in another cave in the same area I forget it’s name but he had gone back to get some more rope for him and his caving partner and his buddy noticed he had been away longer than normal so he went back and saw that some rocks fell on Pavel and killed him. He was a very knowledgeable brave cave spelunker.😞
This cave could go even deeper, but I would guess a cave under the ocean would be deeper, and when I mean deep, I mean the moment you leave the sub, you get crushed
OK, that almost gave me an anxiety attack, quite literally!!!😳 Very intense story. Maybe a bit too intense for someone with a very sharp imagination. The visuals I was imagining during this story, were absolutely horrifying. I noticed my body had tensed and my heart was beating faster than usual. GOOD JOB, especially if you're trying to tell stories that cause physical reactions. It worked.😬👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
So the russian team members saved Jeff´s and Robbie´s lives as they let the less experienced climbers go ahead while they stayed back down in the rising flood. These guys are incredibly brave.
@Protoman I've never taken a leadership course, unless you'd count the boyscouts as such. But i have lead, and i have certainly been foolish! I've marched on, thinking stupidly that a leader leads with his feet and that a man would admit weakness in front of his peers before actually breaking down. Turns out they generally dont. They march on to the point where you have to pick up their backpacks in order for them to even keep going at any rate. And if you haven't tried carrying double packs on a hike, i swear to god it taught me to be more attentive real quick cause that shit sucks!
@Repent Sinner I sound like a coward because I should be responsible for your stupid mistakes? You sound like a Boomer who mommy and daddy forgot to teach responsibility too. You can't blame everybody for your shortcomings in mind someday you'll grow up and realize this. You can't blame everybody for your shortcomings in life. Someday you'll grow up and realize this.
Yeesh. I feel so bad for the family of the man that died for having to receive him back in pieces, and also the people who had to dismember him to send him home. Traumatizing all around.
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I don't know anything about cave climbing but wow that's a great idea attaching a piece of rope to the hand ascender so you can use your legs in addition to hands to push yourself up.
Can we take a moment to realize that this cave is so deep, complex, and isolated, that if any explorer's light source were to go out, it would mean guaranteed death.
@moviemaker2011z Them Lyin Ass Mother-F-ers @'Big-Battery'... Spending Their I'll-Gotten Gains On Propaganda Campaigns That Make Me Believe Untrue Things!!
alexkhoury I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. I got it in my about tab.
Love your channel, I've watched every cave and diving video you've released. This is probably my favorite one, though the diving ones giving me a lot of adrenaline due to my fear of deep water. You're a very talented narrator, and your voice along with the tone and emphasis you use is top quality, and ultimately what keeps me coming back and replaying these stories. Speaking of which, which video is the one with a bunch of guys diving one at a time following each other in a cave when it collapsed, separating them? I can't find it anywhere now.
No thanks!! I don't mind walking into a big ass cave like the Jenolan Caves in NSW Australia, but I'm not going on ropes or tight spaces or water in one thanks!!
'For reasons unclear there are no more expeditions until year 2000...' The unclear reasons like Soviet Union fallin appart, Abhasia region revolting against Georgia rule, Russian troops moving in and helping to establish unrecognised state? Yeah, dunno why nobody tried to go there, it would have been as simple as in North Korea.
I have been caving in Alberta Canada and I understand the COMPLETE DARKNESS. It must have been terrifying for that man all alone in a gigantic cave with only the empty quiet and spiders for company. That's a hell of a way to go.
I found your channel today- wow! this was such a scary and amazing retelling. I can't wait to hear more. Thank you for taking the time to put it all together. We have some stunning caves in New Zealand, but nothing like this.
cheeselovingman I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. I got it in my about tab.
I found a skeleton when I was young while caving in Ireland, I reported it and never heard anymore about it after showing them where it was, it had clearly been there a very long time, but it was still haunting to imagine a person sitting down for the final time in this dark pocket in the earth
Yes and I don't understand people like you , to go in this hell ,its my nigtmare and my phobia!!!! You are suicidal to go down here, just dont go..... its a masochist. shit...
stick to one unit sytem (preferably the metric system) or at least show both. Its super anoying having to find out what a given unit relates to in the other system... otherwise good and interresting vid.
