Beyond the Deep
Bill
Stone & Barb am Ende with Monte Paulson
Beyond
the Deep is the new book on the exciting true life expedition to the Huautla
Cave System in 1994. The book is a page-turning thriller that covers the
tremendous human drama of going where no one has gone before.
Hidden in a remote, mountainous region of southeastern Mexico is
Huautla-possibly the deepest cave complex in the world, an uncharted, never
fully explored world of skyscraper-sized chasms, underground rivers, and
treacherous rock slides. In 1994, an elite team of international explorers with
the combined skills of mountaineering, caving, and diving set out to go farther
into the earth than anyone had before. Led by a larger-than-life, driven caving
pioneer, the expedition faced some of the most severe-and most deadly-conditions
ever encountered...
BEYOND
THE DEEP
For
eighteen years, since he first explored Huautla, Bill Stone vowed to someday
find the end of its seemingly bottomless labyrinth. When he returned, he came
armed with a radical new device he invented for breathing underwater that both
expanded and challenged the skills of his expert cavers. The team reached
Stone's first landmark—a dark, unexplored, water-filled tunnel more than 3,000
feet beneath the surface—when tragedy struck.
Suddenly,
Stone was faced with rebellion and a choice: to return to the surface with his
Holy Grail unclaimed, or to push on with the team's least experienced diver, the
expedition's lone woman.
He
chose to push on. At record-breaking depths, Stone and Barbara am Ende found
themselves in a life-and-death struggle virtually cut off from potential help
and relying on Stone's still-unproven invention. This is their story—a
white-knuckle epic of adventure, obsession, and danger that brilliantly
illuminates the human desire to go beyond all limits in every way: to go beyond
the deep.
ISBN: 0446527092