How a Cave-Jumping Daredevil Transformed Puerto Rico’s Climbing Scene

www.climbing.com

The extraordinary career of Puerto Rico’s biggest route developer began with a vampire hunt in 1975.

What we can learn from the world’s vanishing cave dwellers

Culture

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more sense than ever.

The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave

The New Yorker

When Beatriz Flamini was growing up, in Madrid, she spent a lot of time alone in her bedroom. “I really liked being there,” she says. She’d read books to her dolls and write on a chalkboard while giving them lessons in math or history.