2012 Photo Contest, Nature, 2nd prize

Infinite Cave

Photographer

Carsten Peter

<em>National Geographic</em> magazine

03 May, 2010

Gareth ‘Sweeney’ Sewell ascends from the Garden of Edam.

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 ascends from the Garden of Edam. At the far end, giant flashbulbs illuminate a huge gallery towards the Vietnamese Wall. A British caving team discovered the world’s biggest cave passage in Vietnam, sometimes up to 200 meters high.

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