I am surprised to find this video I don't remember seeing before of
Michel emerging from Midnight Cave Sept 5, 1972! If someone reading
this took the video, please speak up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fxshED97Zw
Pete Strickland and I and several other Texas cavers were there to
watch him come out. A NASA helicopter had landed nearby and flew him
to Houston for all sorts of medical evaluations. We worked very hard
for a week or two hauling all the wires, scientific instruments
(including a stationary bicycle), and the lumber and supplies from
his tent platform out of the cave. We subsisted on packaged
"astronaut meals" provided by NASA, which did not include beer.
BYOB
A short article by Michel "Six Months Alone in a Cave" appeared
several years later in National Geographic March 1975. I'm not aware
of any book that he wrote about it.
Carl's "short summary and a few pictures" in 50 Years of Texas
Caving is the best synopsis you will find of the
exploration of Midnight Cave and the Michel Siffre experience. Carl
was instrumental in both.
50 Years is an underutilized source of information that
everyone interested in Texas caving should have. Read Bill Mixon's
review from the Jan 2008 NSS News
http://pages.suddenlink.net/carl-kunath/50_Years/Bill_Mixon's_Review_50_Years_of_Texas_Caving.pdf
Logan
On 4/29/2018 8:49 PM, Carl Kunath
wrote:
Terry Cavanaugh certainly hit a few high spots during his
brief caving career.
There is a short summary and a few pictures of the Siffre
adventure at Midnight Cave in 50 Years of Texas Caving,
(the encyclopedia of Texas caving), pages 459-467.
===Carl Kunath
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2018 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Terry Cavanaugh
and the Alpine Express
He
wrote a book about it. Unfortunately, I cannot find an
english version.
Yesterday Bexar
Grotto members helped man a TSS booth and a
Bexar Grotto booth at the Cascade Caverns Cave
Fest. The turnout was not huge but it was fun
talking to people about caves throughout the
day. The band that played at the event was Terry
Cavanaugh and the Alpine Express. German polka
not my chosen style of music but they were very
good. During a break between sets Terry came and
sat down with us at the Bexar Grotto booth and
casually mentioned that he had done some caving
as a youth in Houston. We asked him where he
went caving and he mentioned Caverns of Sonora.
This would have been in the early 1970’s so
maybe a local cave instead of “the” Caverns of
Sonora. He mentioned a trip where they stopped
by a cave where a European fellow – Swedish, he
recalled – was doing an experiment on circadian
rhythms. That would have been Frenchman Michel
Sifre in Midnight Cave in 1972. He also recalled
a trip to the Bustamante area of Mexico with
some Houston cavers during which two members of
the party drowned. That notorious incident
happened in 1971 in Grutas de Carrizal. You can
read about on page 296 of “50 Years of Texas
Caving”, or the detailed report in the November
1971 Texas Caver on the Karst Information
Portal: http://digital.lib.usf.edu/SFS0055003/00001/pdf.
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