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Late on a sweltering morning in April, two slim British cavers named Frank and Cookie lowered themselves into a slick, humid pit deep below Borneo's rainforest.
2017年4月的某一天，在酷熱難耐的近午時分，兩名身材纖瘦的英國洞穴探險家弗蘭克和庫奇下探進入加里曼丹島雨林地底深處一個濕滑的坑洞里。
Climbing down past an ancient heap of bird guano and pushing through a gallery of gleaming pillars the color of old bone, the pair were hoping to make history. They had crawled into Cave of the Winds, deep inside a cave system known as Clearwater, where they would search for a passage to Racer Cave, part of the Racer-Easter system.
他倆往下爬，經過長年沉積的鳥糞堆，擠過骨白色石柱閃爍的洞廊，一心想創造歷史。他們匍匐爬進位于知名的“清水洞”洞穴系統深處的“風洞”，要從那里尋找通往“黑蛇洞”的通道，而黑蛇洞則是“黑蛇—復活節洞穴系統”的一部分。
Connecting the two would create a "super system," one of the longest subterranean labyrinths on the planet. As the men wormed down, drilling and hammering bolts into the slick rock to hold their climbing ropes, their odds of success seemed good.
若是將這兩處洞穴系統接通，將會形成一個“超級洞穴系統”，成為地球上最長的地底迷宮之一。他們不斷往下鉆，在滑溜的巖石上鉆孔、釘螺栓來固定登山繩，成功似乎在望。
