Deep Into the Brgevceva Cave System

Photographer Peter Gedei captures a recently discovered cave system in Slovenia

September 11, 2019

Brgevceva Cave System

Photo by Peter Gedei

It wasn't until 2017 that European spelunkers entered and named the Brgevčeva cave system in Slovenia. Inside, the explorers found a narrow corridor that opens onto a giant hall filled with baroque stalagmites and stalactites, and in one passageway they discovered 15,000-year-old bones of bison and horses. Cavers strive to step only on established routes to preserve pristine subterranean worlds such as this one.

See a slideshow of Gedei's work: sc.org/gedei.