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Message: <blockquote data-quote="2009" data-source="post: 4493004" data-attributes="member: 167624">A British caving team believe they have discovered the world's largest cave passage in the heart of the Vietnamese jungle.The rocky passage is 150metres long and measures a towering 200metres in height - seven times as high as the vaulted ceiling of York Cathedral. <img src="http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/4018/article117543004bf82bd0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Called Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave) it is believed to be almost twice the size of the current record holder.'It is a truly amazing sized cave and one of the most significant discoveries by a British caving team,' said Adam Spillane, a member of the 13-man expedition team. Using a laser measuring device known as the LaserRace 300, which measures height and width, the team are now back in the UK analysing their readings. <img src="http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/6095/article117543004bf828e0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The cave was originally discovered in 1991 by a Vietnamese Jungle man called Ho Khanh. However Mr Spillane said no-one had entered if before because 'it emitted a frightful wind and noise which was due to a large underground river'.But assisted by representatives of Hanoi University of Science, the joint British-Vietnamese Caving Expedition 2009 spent five days exploring the cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in mid-April.The team spent six hours trekking through the jungle to reached the cave. Climbing down into a large chamber, they had to negotiate two underground rivers before reaching the main passage of the Hang Son Doong. <img src="http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6640/article117543004bf81410.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The team will return to Vietnam later in the year to complete the expedition of the cave and conduct a full survey.'The cave is 6.5km long at present but the end of the main passage still continues with a calcite wall of over 45m high halting our progress,' Mr Spillane said.'More work on the next expedition is required to make a complete exploration of Hang Son Doong and obtain a complete photographic record of the cave. 'It is a great achievement in this day and age to discover and explore such a fantastic cave.' <img src="http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4609/article117543004bf829e0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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