The mountaineer was dragged down by an avalanche in Patagonia, on Argentina's border with Chile. An Austrian woman, also an experienced climber, sustained severe injuries.
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Translating to ‘Mountain River Cave’, Hang Son Doong Cave is the largest in the world. Buried deep in the jungles of Phong Nha Ke-Bang National Park in Vietnam, the cave looks like something straight out of the Jurassic period. At 182 metres high, 91 metres wide and more than four kilometres long, Hang Son Doong Cave feels like an underground world of its own might, filled with the world’s largest stalagmites.
But thanks to its two sinkholes, the cave is also flooded with sunlight at times. This has made it possible for a spectacular underground jungle to form where trees reach up to 50 metres high, and for a variety of animals, from monkeys to flying foxes, to call this cave home. Talk about world wonders.