Post by L Roebuck on Nov 11, 2006 9:21:46 GMT -5
Cavers
People who explore caves are called cavers. They use to be referred to as spelunkers, but this is a word that is not used very much anymore by the people who really explore caves. Spelunker was a word made up using the Greek word spelaion, meaning caves, and “lunker”—well, no one is sure what a lunker is supposed to be. Anyway cavers just prefer to be called cavers!
Cavers are: truck drivers, doctors, teachers, scientists, roofers, construction workers, beekeepers, or lawyers. Just about any sort of person can be a caver. They can be tall or short, young or old, and live just about anywhere. Sometimes cavers travel many, many miles to explore caves in such remote places as Sarawak, Malaysia, or Irian Jaya, Indonesia, and live for months in tents deep in the jungle
Source: NPS
People who explore caves are called cavers. They use to be referred to as spelunkers, but this is a word that is not used very much anymore by the people who really explore caves. Spelunker was a word made up using the Greek word spelaion, meaning caves, and “lunker”—well, no one is sure what a lunker is supposed to be. Anyway cavers just prefer to be called cavers!
Cavers are: truck drivers, doctors, teachers, scientists, roofers, construction workers, beekeepers, or lawyers. Just about any sort of person can be a caver. They can be tall or short, young or old, and live just about anywhere. Sometimes cavers travel many, many miles to explore caves in such remote places as Sarawak, Malaysia, or Irian Jaya, Indonesia, and live for months in tents deep in the jungle
Source: NPS