Shadowing Practice: RE2 Unit 12B - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Track 24.
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Reading 12b.
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Dark Descent.
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It's August 2004.
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Caver Sergio Garcia Dils de la Vega kisses his girlfriend goodbye at the entrance of Krubera Cave.
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Krubera, in the western Caucasus Mountains, is the deepest known cave in the world.
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It will be weeks before he sees her again.
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A member of an international team of 56 cavers from seven countries, Garcia Dilsa's mission was to explore Krubera.
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The team also hoped to be the first to reach a depth of 2,000 meters, a feat compared to conquering the North and South Poles.
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One team member even described descending into Krubera as like climbing an inverted mountain,
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Like climbers making their way up that famous peak, the cavers descended slowly.
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They climbed down ropes through huge tunnels and crawled through tight passages known as squeezes.
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Bringing over five tons of equipment and other necessities with them, they established underground camps along the route.
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At each camp they stopped to rest, eat, sleep, and plan the next part of the journey.
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Some days they worked for up to 20 hours at a time,
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and each day they left miles of rope behind them to ease their return ascent
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and phone lines to communicate with people above.
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In the third week they reached 1,775 meters, the deepest point achieved by cavers so far.
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Here, progress was blocked by a sump, a passage filled with water.
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The cavers had only a few options.
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They could empty out all the water, dive through, or go around it.
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Jannati Samokin dove to the bottom but was disappointed.
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No chance to get through, he said.
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Searching for a way around the sump, Garcia Dills risked entering a cascade of near-freezing water.
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The water was so cold, I lost the feeling in my fingers, he said.
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He, too, was unsuccessful.
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Finally, the team found a way around the sump through a tight passage they called the way to the dream.
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At first, they were thrilled.
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However, it soon led to yet another sump at 1,840 meters.
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After a short test dive, Samokin emerged smiling.
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There was a promising passage, he reported.
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Sadly, it would have to wait.
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After nearly four weeks underground, with supplies running low, the team was out of time.
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They would have to return to the surface.
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Four weeks later, following the path opened by Garcia Dils' team,
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a team of Ukrainian cavers reached the sump at 1,840 meters relatively quickly.
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After much searching, they discovered a pit, an area of a cave that falls straight down, named Millennium Pit.
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It allowed them to pass the 2,000 meter depth pits
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and passages led them to 2080 meters a spot they named game over
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but the caving game is never over in 2009 jenady samokin
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returned to krubera this time he reached a depth of 2191 meters then In 2012,
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he broke his own record, diving to a point 6 meters deeper at a total depth of 2,197 meters.
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And so, the game goes on, with deeper and deeper caves calling out to be explored.
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