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Desert Caves Photo Gallery

© by John & Susy Pint; Lars and Erik Bjurström

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The Rope Formation in Mossy Cave before it was accidentally destroyed.
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Organ Pipe formation in Mossy Cave
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Local people are often amazed that so much beauty can be found beneath a featureless desert.
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Hyenas carried these bones into Murubbeh Cave about 1000 years ago.
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Palm trees grow in Dahl Abu Jirfan. Greg Gregory on rope.
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Pint, Uebrick and Canning at the unassuming, single entrance to the maze known as Dahl Sultan.
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The Dome in Dahl Murubbeh.
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Dahl Sultan's tiny entrance seen from below.
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Note the water line on these stalactites in Dahl Sultan.
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Murubbeh Cave has a large, walk-in entrance.
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Lars Bjurström in the Twilight Zone, Murubbeh Cave
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Like snowy feathers, these delicate calcite formations grace Murubbeh's ceiling.
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Erik Bjurström in the entrance to Ain Hit.
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Diving in the desert. Mike Gibson in Ain Hit.
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The Whistling Teapot. Digging under the wall was the only way to get into the Closet of the Jinn.
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The Ice Dancer helictite, found deep inside Dahl Sultan.
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Susy Pint fell in love with caving after finding stalactites like these in Dahl Sultan.
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A police official fromMajma'ah guards our rope at the edge of Dharb Al Najem pit.
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The morning after a desert deluge terminated the Dharb Al Najem expedition.
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Ron Kummerfeldt prusiking inside the Dharb Al Najem, 100 meters deep.
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Dave Black trying to get back out of the Teapot cave.
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"Now hold perfectly still!" Two victims of Lars' time exposure technique.
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Our thanks to Lars and Erik Bjurström for their contributions to the Photo Gallery.

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