Carlsbad, Caves and a Camera

In Carlsbad, Caves, and a Camera the author, a professional photographer, recalls his cave exploration while a young man in the 1930's.  Back in those days, in the Carlsbad Caverns region of New Mexico, caving lacked its present-day sophistication, and there was no dearth of outstanding caves to be found and explored.  This is the story of young amateurs who plunged, inexperienced, unadvised, and unguided, into the underground, who met their problems as they arose, and who bungled their way into competence.  It is the thrill of penetrating the unknown, with the threat of danger ever present in the darkness beyond.  It is the thought of boundless beauty, lost for aeons in darkness, until the feeble light of the explorer brings it into view.  It is the surge of pride in knowing that no human foot-step had been that way before.  It is the story of people simply having fun.  

Carlsbad, Caves, and a Camera is a deeply felt tribute to a way of life and a part of nature that have almost disappeared from our experience.

Robert Nymeyer
Copyright © 1985 by Lynn A Nymeyer
ISBN: 978-939748-36-5
318 pages, Softbound, B&W