One of the few photographs of The Last Nemo Station - the sump at the bottom of the deepest known cave in the world. Veryovkina Cave - Wikipedia
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I just couldnât.
I would know that I was looking at a pool of water in the deepest cave in the world and I would know that it is inhabited by something ancient, primordial and evil and it was about to surface at any moment!
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Takes me back to a Soddersâ bake off. 
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Itâs not that for me, itâs just the sheer level of risk involved. The guy hanging on the rope there, one of the most skilled and experienced cavers has died since, the victim of a rock fall whilst caving. If you read the account of the expedition that photo was taken on, the whole team (about 10 people) nearly died due a massive and sudden influx of water. From memory, the entirety of the bottom 200m of the cave (by height) was filled in the space of a few hours. Climbing big mountains is pretty risky, but caving is just on a whole additional level. Not for me thanks.
And they found a dead caver on one of their expeditions whoâd been there (dead) for nearly a year after getting stuck (on his own)
Have you got a fishtank?
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Yes they did, the following year I think. In that instance, the caver the found was on a solo expedition, and also significantly under equipped for the conditions, so a significant degree of personal negligence increasing the risk factors.
I get the inherent danges of caving and would not for one moment contemplate it.
I just meant that if there was a safe secret passage to that pool and I was accompanied by a powerful wizard, I still wouldnât go there 
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The cheese press was plenty adventurous (and scary) enough for me.
If it would settle your mind any, one way to think about it is that the water is just at the level of the ordinary water table. The reason the cave is the deepest in the world is not that it penetrates a very long way down into the planet. The reason is that its entrance is a long way up a mountain. A mate of mine is something of a specialist in deep caving and he says that finding deeper and deeper caves is really a matter of finding higher and higher entrances.
I am talking about wizards and monsters of the deep dark places of the earth here, away with you and your logic!
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The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 âWaddyâs Wagonâ (20th Air Force) posing to duplicate the nose art. All were KIA when the bomber was shot down over Japan in January, 1945.
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An abandoned meteorological station at the Kolyuchin island in the Chukchi Sea
credit: Dmitry Kokh
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More from the same island
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The bears seem to have settled in well
PS either a brave photographer or a long lens
No sign of Goldilocks though
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Aaaand this is why Fetlar is PLENTY far enough northâŚ
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Indeed, although itâs only about 7 deg further North than here, about the same variation as Newcastle to Fetlar.
The adjacent landmass is quite a different proposition though.
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