By William Stone

By Barbara am Ende

By Monte Paulsen

On Sale: May 30, 2010
Page Count: 368 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780446561273

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Two members of a team who descended into the Huautla cave complex in Mexico describe their perilous and deadly trek into one of the world’s deepest caves.

The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized, and sudden floods can drown divers in an instant.

With a two-decade obsession, William Stone and his 44-member team entered the sinkhole at Sotano de San Augustin. The first camp settled 2,328 feet below ground in a cavern where headlamps couldn’t even illuminate the walls and ceiling. The second camp teetered precariously above an underground canyon where two subterranean rivers collided.

But beyond that lay the unknown territory: a flooded corridor that had blocked all previous comers, claimed a diver’s life, and drove the rest of the team back-except for William Stone and Barbara am Ende, who forged on for 18 more days, with no hope of rescue, to set the record for the deepest cave dive in the Western Hemisphere.

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"Beyond the Deep is an extraordinary and heroic account. I shuddered as I read it."
Wade Davis, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow
"[D]escribes one of the most significant achievements of modern exploration, with personal stories that make this an exciting, page-turning read."
Hazel A. Barton, Ph.D., co-star of the IMAX film Journey into Amazing Caves
"For anyone wanting to vicariously experience the hardship and dangers of expedition life underground, this is the book to read."
Bernie Chowdhury, author of The Last Dive and publisher of Immersed: The International Technical Diving Magazine
"From the opening page... Beyond the Deep plunges you into a tubular heart of darkness."
Jeff Long, author of The Descent