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Trekking the largest cave in the world: Hang Son Doong, Vietnam, part four.
Day 4 (This is part four of a multi-part series. To start at part one, click here: https://authorrickfuller.com/2024/03/24/trekking-the-largest-cave-in-the-world-hang-son-doong-vietnam/) Waking up on the final day of a long trek brings a bittersweet feeling. The tour has been lengthy enough that you’re ready for it to conclude, yet you know you’ll miss it once it’s over. You’ll……
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Trekking the largest cave in the world: Hang Son Doong, Vietnam, part three.
Day 3 (This is part three of a multi-part series. To start at part one, please click here: https://authorrickfuller.com/2024/03/24/trekking-the-largest-cave-in-the-world-hang-son-doong-vietnam/) There’s really nothing like a cold-water plunge at the end of a long and strenuous day to facilitate great sleep, and the underlying knowledge that I was hundreds of meters underground inside the largest cave on……
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Trekking the largest cave in the world: Hang Son Doong, Vietnam, part two.
(This is part two of a multi-part article. View part one here: https://shorturl.at/iqQT1) The echoing din of thousands of nesting swiftlets reverberates through the vast cavern, their frenzied chirping mingling with the soft, diffused light of dawn trickling in through the cave’s arching aperture to act as a reveille, calling us from our tents at……
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Trekking the largest cave in the world: Hang Son Doong, Vietnam, part one.
The thick jungle canopy provides a welcome break from the sweltering Vietnamese sun, casting a verdant shade over our group of ten as we trek along the narrow, slippery trail. We’re as out-of-place in this environment as newborn fawns, blinking and staring around with wide eyes and flaring nostrils at the unfamiliar terrain and the……
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A close look at Stephan’s Quintet from the Webb space telescope.
As the countdown clock reached zero and the scientific community held their collective breaths on the early morning of December 25th, 2021, the European Space Agency in collaboration with NASA, launched a massive Ariane 5 rocket from the tropical rainforests of Kourou, French Guiana. Riding atop that rocket, along with the hopes, dreams, blood, sweat,……
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