One Thousand Metres Down - A Journey to the Starless River (Caving)

This is a second-hand copy of the book One Thousand Metres Down - A Journey to the Starless River by Jean Cadoux and others.

Condition: This is a used book in good condition. This copy has some light foxing to the dustjacket and the very edges of some pages - see photos.

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
Year: 1957 (1st. English edition)
Format: Hardback with dustjacket
Pages: 179
Condition: Used (Good)

English translation of an account of the French cave Gouffre Berger (discovered in 1953 by Joseph Berger Berger) and the 1955 exploration of a cave in the Sornin Plateau, high above Grenoble in the Vercors. A milestone in caving by a team of resolute young men who pushed the limits of spelunking below the magic kilometre mark. a mission accomplished in a final 10-day underground adventure in 1955.