Leye Dashiwei Sinkhole Group is the world's first sinkhole group, which is known as the world's "karst resort" and "world sinkhole museum". In the lofty mountains with a radius of less than 20 square kilometers, there are 24 sinkholes, of which the Dashiwei sinkhole is the representative of the Leye sinkhole group. Formed about 65 million years ago, the Tai Shek Wai Sinkhole Group is a little-known secret place.
Dashiwei is a typical karst funnel wonder, a huge sinkhole that integrates unique underground caves, underground primeval forests, rare animals and underground rivers. The underground primeval forest at the bottom of Tai Shek Wai covers an area of about 96,000 square meters, making it the largest underground primeval forest in the world. The trees in the underground primeval forest are thick and towering, and there are many sour date trees that require three people to hug together. The bottom of the sinkhole is covered with moss, shrubs are born from it, and it is found that there are short-bowel ferns that are older than the national first-class protected plants that grew at the same time as the dinosaur era in the world, rare green orchids, and thorny square bamboo with an area of more than 500 square meters found for the first time in China. Many rare animals have also been found, such as blind fish, white hairy eagles, transparent shrimp, China creek crabs, ghost spiders, etc., of which The Chinese creek crab and ghost spiders have been identified as new species.
[p=25, null, left] In 1998, the expedition film crew and scientific expedition experts organized by Guangxi Television and Leye County Government and other units entered the Dashiwei sinkhole and the underground river for the first time, and entered the Dashiwei for the second time on November 9, 1999. The founders of the Black Hole Expedition team were the participants in these two initial exploration activities, bringing us a lot of precious information, which is a kind of inheritance, and being able to personally explore Dashiwei has become the dream of every black hole expedition team member. [p=25, null, left] The Tai shek Wai Sinkhole has been strictly protected, and the joint participation of the Black Hole Expedition and the Beijing Expedition is to assist the experts of a research institute in the investigation project of the Tai Shek Wai Sinkhole. Both teams have sent outstanding team members to ensure the smooth completion of scientific expeditions. Welcome to the Guangxi Black Hole Expedition
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Interested friends welcome to join us, weekly regular arrangements for caving related skills training, monthly organization of adventure activities, skills teaching from scratch, welcome teams from all over the world to come to exchange, look forward to the cooperation of clubs around the world.
In the early morning, the transparent sunshine and birds and flowers accompanying the fire selling village, the team members and experts count the items and prepare them. Although he met the brothers of the Beijing team for the first time, the common interests and hobbies and the cheerfulness of the young people made everyone quickly warm up. There has always been a teaching in the team: no brothers, no caves. Everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, and naturally they are brothers born into death. The Beijing team sent elite Captain Cui and Hugo to participate in the assistance. As a landlord, the Black Hole Expedition team has the boss, the rainforest, the snail, my dark horse, unity, caution, fire pit, hummingbird, Wuhua, and Xiaoming to participate together.
Expeditions require adequate preparation, and all our material preparations need to not only ensure that we accomplish the intended tasks, but also take full account of emergencies and emergencies. All work is rigorous and orderly, because adventure is never adventure.
After playing with the cave, I found that the car became smaller and smaller, and the 400-meter rope, road rope, auxiliary rope, electric hammer, rock nail scraper, personal equipment and materials filled all the trunks of the car.
The beauties of the expedition team come first, don't underestimate them, absolutely do not let the eyebrows be shaved.
A group of people set off from Huobao Village and drove to the event site--- Dashiwei Sinkhole. According to the plan, we will descend from the lowest point of the Horse Bee Cave, and it is expected that the height of the descending line will be within 200 meters, and the double line will be lowered, and an auxiliary line will be set up to transport supplies.
The first on the left is the senior leader of the Guangxi Black Hole Expedition team and my master---- tropical rainforest The picture on the right is my dark horse himself. Hey.
The expedition was planned to stay at the bottom of the sinkhole for 3 days, plus the materials to assist in the scientific expedition, each team member carried at least 2 large bags, and the team leader had to bear the burden of the arduous task of carrying the rope bag, with a weight of far more than 25KG.
Reaching the descending point, the pioneer is this group of black hole expedition bosses and his disciples rainforest who participated in the first and second preliminary expeditions of Tai Shek Wai. This is the legacy of the team, and generations of cavers have inherited and carried forward this fascinating sport. The boss has participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, participated in many Sino-foreign joint expeditions, and many excellent sinkhole cave documentaries have been produced by the boss. The boss's love and dedication to cave exploration for decades has infected every member of our black hole team, and he is the eternal boss in our hearts who are loved by all the team members.
Pioneers must have courage, and of course must have a wealth of experience and skills. The boss and the rainforest are already experienced in hundreds of battles, and the degree of tacit understanding between them is even more unusual, and having these two is definitely the reassurance pill of the team.
Human beings are really small in nature, so we are not here to conquer nature, and if we cannot conquer it, we will be punished by nature. We just come to feel nature, to feel the magic, to feel life.
This is where the bottom of the sinkhole is a 96,000-square-meter enclosed primeval forest, with a funnel-shaped bottom that extends to the entrance to the underground river. On the seemingly calm surface we know that the mystery beneath.
After the vanguard team laid out the line, captain Cui of the Beijing team led the first group of experts from the institute to descend.
At this time, the sinkhole suddenly fell heavy rain, and the rain hit the blades, making a loud noise. Clouds rise from the horse mountain inside the sinkhole, and everyone looks like a fairyland in the fog.
After a while, the sun was shining brightly again. This psychedelic sun shines on this vibrant underground forest, so clear. The Tai Shek Wai Sinkhole has its own unique special microclimate, and its ecosystem is much more fragile than the surface, which is one of his mysterious and fascinating places.
For this mysterious weather rapid change phenomenon, there is still no conclusive conclusion, but it is speculated that it may be because of the unique geographical environment, air pressure, air flow and other reasons.
A cloud of mist rising from the mouth of the underground river hole slowly lifted up and finally dispersed at the top of the sinkhole.
Large rocks surround the steep cliffs. Now Tai Shek Wai is in its "middle age" and is still very active. Due to the great damage to the surrounding environment, the slopes and cliffs are "living stones", and according to their measurements at the bottom of the pit, the sound of falling rocks can be heard every two minutes on average.
Aerial view of the sinkhole
Experiencing more than a dozen heavy rains and light rains and sun rains a day, it is difficult to feel that kind of magic without personally experiencing this feeling.
Guangxi has unique sinkhole cave resources, although the team members participating in this activity have participated in the actual combat of large cave sinkholes many times, but it is still exciting to be able to visit the Dashiwei sinkhole. The length of the rope of more than 100 meters will make many friends who play SRT uncomfortable, and the ductility of the rope, the self-weight of the rope, and the heat of the descender will make the physical strength quickly consumed. The picture shows a female member of the Black Hole Expedition Team leading the descent of a scientific expedition cooperation personnel, and rich practical experience and excellent quality are necessary conditions to participate in this activity.
After landing on the ground, the first thing we have to do is to quickly leave the descent point to prevent falling objects from above, and a small stone at a height of 200 meters can smash people, come to a safe area, and unload the SRT equipment. Take a break.
This is the mouth of the sinkhole in Dashiwei. At this time, we are like frogs at the bottom of the well, so let us temporarily put aside the trivialities of the ground and seriously enjoy this rare intimate contact with the Dashiwei Sinkhole.
Night began to fall, and the unique microclimate of Tai Shek Wai was still very willful and self-changing.
The last group completed the descent, the time was already 18:00 in the afternoon, the light slowly dimmed, the sinkhole was earlier than outside the pit, and the cold began to gather. The first group of team members led the experts to the underground river mouth camp first. We have also assembled as the second group. At this moment, it was already dark, and I, Rainforest, Unity, Careful, Wuhua, and Xiaoming needed to transport the food and personal supplies of the whole team of 14 people for two days to reach the camp. Such a weight is still a fool for each of us who are accustomed to seeing the scene, whether men or women are two heavy bags. The camp was about 800 meters in a straight line, and we didn't know what the road ahead was except for the rainforest. Everyone distributed supplies, checked the headlamps and began to leave for the camp. The beautiful-looking figure of 800 meters turned out to be terrible.
We set off from the camp it was dark, there were no photos left, this picture was taken by mobile phone on the way back, because the road was too difficult, everyone was reluctant to take out the camera. Nearly 90 ° gravel slope, mud sand and stone washing soft, coupled with a large load, often climb a step slip two steps, this is up, we feel the black down, simply can not see too much to go to the road, all the way wet slippery so that the big weight of everyone physical energy consumption is very large, almost everyone fell over the ass. "The bottom of the pit is very steep, and it is difficult for even people to stand firm" This sentence was said by a professor who once participated in the dashiwei sinkhole scientific expedition. At the beginning of the march, we could still see the reflective road signs left by the previous group of team members. It won't be there for a while. Later, when asked, they said that it was too difficult to mark, there was no feature at all, the vegetation was very lush, only multi-marked, and all the road signs were used up in halfway. Considering that rainforest has also participated in many large stone wai scientific expeditions, it is still no problem to reach the camp. Led by the rainforest, 800 meters straight away from us, it took us nearly two hours to finally reach the camp. It's humiliating to say, but the players we've experienced are emotional every time they talk about it.
The picture is the underground river of the Dashiwei Sinkhole. Tonight we'll be camping by the river. Although all the team members who arrived at the camp had worked very hard. After the simple adjustment, everyone still quickly adjusted the state and worked separately. Chef, logistics, camp... The players are methodically performing their duties. Interestingly, we washed our food by the river, and the China Creek crab climbed into our feet and climbed into our basins, and these precious species didn't know that they were so precious, and they had no memories of being hurt in their cells, so they ran over and played with us to share food. With the joint efforts of all the team members, we drank delicious chicken soup, ate simple and delicious meals, and slept in the barely flat camp, which is the strength of the team.
After dinner, discuss the project plan for tomorrow, as the underground river can no longer continue to probe into the cave due to the rise of the river below, and it is very likely that rain is falling in the upper reaches of the underground river. After discussion and deliberation, the leaders deliberately decided to withdraw from Dashiwei early tomorrow.
It is understood that from the mouth of the cave to enter can also be deeply explored 2 kilometers, but the way is wading, can not venture into, can only be explored next time.
Everyone seizes the time to rest and recover their strength, and then go to sleep with the roar of the underground river. In the morning I found a lot of Chinese creek crabs crawling to the shore and saying good morning to us.
After a simple breakfast, everyone carried out last night's decision to evacuate Tai Shek Wai ahead of schedule.
Light shines through the mouth of the cave, and it is brilliant
Look at the big stone, yes, it is the one at the mouth of the cave, a few years ago, when the team members entered the big stone wall, they were still more than 30 meters away from the mouth of the cave, and now they have entered the mouth of the cave, and the stones here will be taken away by the underground river every day, and they will continue to slide down, and many years later, the big stones will also be brought to the distant downstream by the dissolving point of the underground river
Looking at the mouth of the sinkhole at the mouth of the underground river cave, there is a feeling of connecting heaven and earth
The sun has poured into the sinkhole, and it was dark last night, so now it's time to appreciate this mysterious underground forest
Waiting at the rising point, everyone asked the experts for advice. After all, such learning opportunities are very precious
The first group began to rise
Not much, and it's getting better
As everyone was rising, a large rock fell from the opposite cliff wall, making a huge whirring sound, and it took nearly 10 seconds to hit the trunk, and then the sound of the trunk breaking was heard. The long-distance climb is a painful and beautiful process, of course, more beautiful than painful. Experience the cliff scenery and watch the clouds of the underground forest dissipate, which is absolutely beautiful.
Strange snails, whose shell is wrapped in a soft layer of substance, will automatically control the cracking, revealing a hard cow shell
The ascent of all the team members and the delivery of supplies, and the final collection of ropes. The whole process ended at two or three o'clock in the morning the next day. Pulling all the supplies up from the bottom of the pit of nearly two hundred meters, and even our expert doctors came to help in the middle of the night, a large event like this really requires the determination of everyone to unite and have customer service difficulties. This event, the Beijing Cave Expedition team and our Guangxi Black Hole Expedition Team cooperated with each other, although they did not achieve the expected scientific expedition goals, they were still very fruitful, and it was an unforgettable experience and experience for all the participating team members. The Guangxi Black Hole Expedition team is willing to make friends with all those who love caving exploration. Welcome to Guangxi to explore the cave.
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