Members of the CRF spend hours crawling, climbing and rappelling through cave passageways, following leads through sometimes very tight openings to document and map Mammoth Cave, according to the Mammoth Cave National Park. 'When it comes to discoveries in Mammoth Cave, there truly is no end in sight!' Dr Rick Toomey, the park's Cave Resource Management Specialist, said in a statement: 'The Cave Research Foundation is fundamentally the reason that Mammoth Cave is recognized as the world's longest cave. Without CRF exploration and mapping, Mammoth Cave would potentially still be a 44-mile-long cave system.' the Mammoth Cave National Park shared on FacebookMammoth Cave was created by the natural process of limestone erosion, known as karst topography.

Source: The Nation September 16, 2021 19:07 UTC