Cave Exploring Gone WRONG | The Veryovkina Cave Incidents

Previous video in the series - https://youtu.be/1AgHqJ_oekg Hey everyone! Thank you all so much for watching! As a quick FYI, the image at 15:58 is not a real image. Also, hello to all of the new subscribers! Glad to have you here and that you're enjoying the content! Edit According to RS Stewart of the Jamaican Caves Organisation who posted down in the comments, the decomposing bodies may not give off deadly gases after all. Here is the link to his channel - www.youtube.com/channel/UCW_O6s9ShR9lIFLJNSmRKOg - He's got some very cool videos of the caves in that area

13:18 "One team member was even carrying a stove and four sleeping bags attached to his harness." WHAT A LEGEND

How fascinating. I can't imagine finding a deep hole in a mountain range and thinking "You know what? I'm going down there."

i cannot even begin to fathom the mind of that man. he hiked up a mountain in the Caucuses in the winter to the worlds deepest cave, by himself, without telling anyone where he was going. then went down into the cave for days in total solitude and darkness. it's utterly brainless how he went about it but the sheer confidence and willpower he had is just incredible to me.

I'm genuinely shocked no one died in that first story. Those people are incredibly strong. The guy with the stove deserves more props!

Ah, yes. The fear of heights and claustrophobia, all in one.

The biggest irony here is that to get into the cave, you have to go up a 7500 foot mountain--which means that even once you are at the deepest point of the cave, you are still higher up than when you started.

I have been to a cave before. Unexplored as far as I could tell. I walked in as far as the light reached….. then every fiber of my being told me to exit immediately. That was my caving career. Idk whats going on with these people that causes them to be completely immune to fear.

Sergei's story gets me extra mad every time I hear it. He left a wife and 2 children behind, without letting them know where he was going and (acording to some sources) although he was an outdoorsman, he had only went caving TWICE before trying to go by himself exploring what is the Everest of caves, it takes a special kind of stupid and cocky to do something like that. Also, retrieving his body was a whole ordeal by itself.

"One team member was even carrying a stove and four sleeping bags attached to his harness." Guy hauling all that ensuring his buddies will eat and sleep as well as possible in such a dire situation, what a badass!

That guy was insane to attempt to go down that cave by himself, I don't care how much experienced a caver he was that was insane.

This is insane. I never realized caves can grow vertically like this. In my naive perspective of a regular visitor, I always perceived them as predominantly horizontal affairs. 😅

There's just something borderline Lovecraftian about the mind-boggling horror and existential dread of being lost in a cave in the guts of the world, knowing there is nothing you can do and yet you're still alive

So the russian team members saved Jeff´s and Robbie´s lives as they let the less experienced climbers go ahead while they stayed back down in the rising flood. These guys are incredibly brave.

The fact that Sergei had researched and planned out this trip for a year and didn’t bring stirrups for his ascenders is mind boggling

As a mountaineer, I found this absolutely fascinating. I'd be willing to bet that, in the second story, the batteries in his head torch would likely have given up long before he died so he probably spent his final days trying to ascend a fixed rope with no footholds in absolute darkness. He'd have remained attached to the ropes (as found) to prevent himself from falling accidentally into the abyss. Let's be careful out there, folks!

Ever since I read a story, as a kid, about a famous incident where a guy went caving by himself in Kentucky, the idea of going into a cave that has tight spaces has made me nervous. I can't imagine doing something like that by myself...it's insane. The more stories I hear about people getting themselves killed by foolishly climbing mountains, attempting to reach one of the poles, caving, etc., the more I realize these people aren't dying due to bad luck, they're dying because they took stupid chances and usually failed to use the proper equipment for what they're doing. Nothing heroic about getting yourself killed out of sheer foolishness.

Mad respect to the Russian guy who managed to carry a stove and other equipments through that torrential whirlpool of water and emerged at the other end without any scratch. Such a badass!

That must be one of the most terrifying death experiences. Being alone in the cold darkness slowly realizing that you're going to either starve to death or have to commit suicide. Imagine the frustration, panic, and despair when he was trying to climb back out but his feet kept slipping... no one deserves that regardless of how stupid it was to go in.

Amazing that the team of experts and camera team made it out. I thought for certain they weren’t going to make it. It does inspire some confidence when you know there are experts who can handle these seemingly impossible situations.