2012 Photo Contest, Nature, 2nd prize

Infinite Cave

Photographer

Carsten Peter

<em>National Geographic</em> magazine

16 March, 2010

Gareth ‘Sweeney’ Sewell and Howard Clarke bolt up the Vietnamese Wall in Hang Song Doong Cave. Hang Song Doong in Phong Nha National Park, Vietnam, is believed to be the world’s largest cave gallery.

About the photographer

Carsten Peter

Carsten Peter is a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine, and specializes in going to extremes: scuba diving in a glacier on Mont Blanc, crossing the Sahara on a ca...

Background story

Gareth ‘Sweeney’ Sewell and Howard Clarke bolt up the Vietnamese Wall in Hang Song Doong Cave. Hang Song Doong in Phong Nha National Park, Vietnam, is believed to be the world’s largest cave gallery. A British caving team discovered the world’s biggest cave passage in Vietnam, sometimes up to 200 meters high.

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