Desert Caves Photo Gallery

� by John & Susy Pint; Lars and Erik Bjurström

The Rope Formation in Mossy Cave before it was accidentally destroyed.	Organ Pipe formation in Mossy Cave	Local people are often amazed that so much beauty can be found beneath a featureless desert.	Hyenas carried these bones into Murubbeh Cave about 1000 years ago.
Palm trees grow in Dahl Abu Jirfan. Greg Gregory on rope.	Pint, Uebrick and Canning at the unassuming, single entrance to the maze known as Dahl Sultan.	The Dome in Dahl Murubbeh.	Dahl Sultan's tiny entrance seen from below.
Note the water line on these stalactites in Dahl Sultan.	Murubbeh Cave has a large, walk-in entrance.	Lars Bjurström in the Twilight Zone, Murubbeh Cave	Like snowy feathers, these delicate calcite formations grace Murubbeh's ceiling.
Erik Bjurström in the entrance to Ain Hit.	Diving in the desert. Mike Gibson in Ain Hit.	The Whistling Teapot. Digging under the wall was the only way to get into the Closet of the Jinn.	The Ice Dancer helictite, found deep inside Dahl Sultan.
Susy Pint fell in love with caving after finding stalactites like these in Dahl Sultan.	A police official fromMajma'ah guards our rope at the edge of Dharb Al Najem pit.	The morning after a desert deluge terminated the Dharb Al Najem expedition.	Ron Kummerfeldt prusiking inside the Dharb Al Najem, 100 meters deep.
Dave Black trying to get back out of the Teapot cave.	"Now hold perfectly still!" Two victims of Lars' time exposure technique.	Our thanks to Lars and Erik Bjurström for their contributions to the Photo Gallery.