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And then there is a um, ice pack in one's caving helmet to keep your brain cool and then a breathing backpack that sent air across very heavy frozen cylinders of ice. And so they put together these spacesuit-looking things, although they're in a rather shocking shade of orange and the main features were an ice vest underneath which was heavy as the dickens because ice is, is really, really heavy. Boston says that’s because it’s extremely hot.īOSTON: Parts of the caves uh, up to 140, in some cases 150 degrees Fahrenheit. In the midst of these beautiful, massive crystals there are these tiny little people wearing what looks like orange hazmat suits. GWIN: My own thought when I saw this documentary was, “Is this even real?” It looks other-worldly. It’s crisscrossed with these massive crystal pillars the size of telephone poles.īOSTON: You can't put your arms around them, they're so big. GWIN: The most spectacular cave is about two stories tall and the size of a football field. I’m going to climb down through (FADES UNDER) There were these massive white crystals lined from floor to ceiling.īOSTON: It’s like being on the inside of a cut gem, isn’t it? It’s just fabulous. To picture it, imagine Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. GWIN: Boston had seen crystals in caves before, but never like the ones in Naica. A National Geographic documentary crew followed her deep inside in 2008.īOSTON: This passage just curves around to the left here, I think.īOSTON: Ooh ooh – look at that! Giant crystals. So really what these caves are an ancient time capsule. They’re nearly a thousand feet deep and they’ve been flooded for millennia. PETER GWIN (HOST): Scientist Penny Boston says she had to see these Naica Caves for herself. PENNY BOSTON (ASTROBIOLOGIST): In the early 2000s, a fellow cave explorer sent me some images from the Naica Caves and I thought it was a photoshop hoax.
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