(ominous music)
- Oh yeah, what is that?
- I think...
- Looks like claws.
Look at that.
There's like a cave down there.
What do you think lives in there?
(screeching noise)
Do not disturb until 2100.
Do you know what's in there?
- It's called a time capsule.
- A couple months ago, Back Country asked me
if I wanted to make a video for them.
So I grabbed some gear and learned how to rock climb
on the edge of a cliff.
When Back Country called me last week
and wanted to sponsor this video,
I knew I had to take it to the next level.
So I called up my favorite Back Country gearhead
to help me choose what equipment I would need
for this adventure.
(phone ringing)
- Hey, Nick. How's it going, man?
- [Nick] Going really good.
- Awesome, awesome.
So basically what I'm doing is I'm going on a trip to Mexico
next week, and I'm doing two massive caves,
a 200 meter and a 400 meter deep cave.
So I'm going to need some gear
to be repelling down these things.
- [Nick] All right, right off the gate,
I would definitely recommend checking out Peak Design.
You can sling the backpack under your shoulder
like most camera guys do and let's...
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Nick] Let's you actually access
to the main body of the backpack.
Probably want some kind of light.
You could also go with something like this
Light & Motion Taz 1200 light.
You can also strap this thing down onto your backpack
or some kind of equipment so that you don't have
to be handheld all the time.
To be really nimble with your fingers
Black Diamond makes a Crag Glove that are fingerless
or you can just get the full finger
and just have all that, you know, friction avoiding
burning your fingertips or anything like that.
- Yeah, I appreciate it, Nick.
Thank you very much.
- [Nick] Look forward to hearing from you again, Cody.
- Yeah, thank you.
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These gearheads are outdoor experts whose job it is
to provide you with highly knowledgeable recommendations
on what gear is right for your adventure.
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I've landed in Tampico, Mexico.
I flew to Mexico City then to Tampico.
It's been a whole day event.
It is now 11 pm.
As I was looking for an Uber, I was saved
by my friend here, Veronica, and her father, Jorge,
who are going to be driving me.
Thank you, guys, very much.
Apparently, there is no Uber here
so they are going to be driving me to the bus station
which is, like, 20 minutes away
rather than get a bus for the next three hours.
So, Veronica, you are an electrical engineer?
- Yes.
- In Mexico City? - Yes
- So that means you control the whole power grid
for all of Mexico, basically? - Yes.
I was saying, "Do you have a big red button?"
- Yes.
- She's got one big red button, and with this button
she can turn off all the power in Mexico City
which I thought was a pretty amazing super power to have.
- It is an amazing job.
- Thank you very much, Veronica.
- You're welcome. - Have a good one. Take care.
- Good night.
- And have a good night.
All right, we made it to the bus stop.
Guys, you won't believe this.
I literally bought the ticket as it was about to leave.
It's 11:30 at night.
It's the last bus of the night.
Oh, yes, that is me.
Okay.
I lucked out.
I lucked out big time on that one.
So I'm going to enjoy this nice air-conditioned bus,
try and get three hours of sleep,
and I'll update you soon.
Well, three hours later I've made it.
I, basically, just slept the whole time.
2:30 am in Mexico.
All right, let's do it.
(upbeat music)
- I finally made it to my hotel.
I'm going to sleep.
I'm going go and do this amazing cave in the morning.
(upbeat music)
So we finally made it to the Cave of Huahuas,
or actually we're on the path there now.
It's about a 25 minute walk down in this forest.
We basically drove all the up to the top of this mountain.
This cave is just about 200 meters deep
so it's gonna take us probably
10 minutes to repel down, and then 15 minutes to go back up
with the assistance of the guys
that are hired to help pull you up.
So it's gonna be a team effort to do this today.
But we got about a 20 minute walk
down to the forest now until we get there.
(lively music)
I didn't realize how hot and sweaty it would be
this early in the morning.
But we made it down to this cave,
and this is so much bigger than I was even expecting.
Oh my God.
You can't even see the bottom.
Oh, there it is.
(men speaking Spanish)
So it is a whole entire set up to get this thing going.
Look at this.
Look at the amount of rope here that we have to get
just to go down into this cave.
Now, this camera is going in the bag.
I'm getting the GoPro out.
We're about to go down.
This is something else.
So right now our guide, Mundo, is going down first.
He's the first one down today,
and he's gonna be at the bottom.
So when I'm repelling down he'll be able
to hold the rope steady.
(encouraging pop music)
All right, boys. Whoo.
Oh my God.
This is insane.
This is quite the set up here.
Wow, look at this.
I can stop or you could just look around.
Or I can go fast.
Let it go.
I feel like I'm a fireman.
Whoa.
I can feel the heat.
I can feel the friction.
Whoo.
It's like there's a whole entire jungle down here.
I've got the ultimate bungee right now.
That was insane.
We've made it all the way down into the cave.
It is so, so deep.
Everything is really slippery as we're trying to
walk down this path to get even farther down there.
Look at this.
We're in our own jungle, and we're slipping down.
It is super slippery and super moist
and like, wet down here.
It's like a totally different scenery than it was up there.
(rocks slipping)
We're on another planet here.
You have this vibrant green
with the black rock mixed in
and another super deep ominous cave.
- [Phone Voice] I'm having problems with the connection.
(laughter)
You can start to see it in the camera.
You can't really see it with your eyes.
You can start to see with the camera.
180 meters more.
It's a little more dangerous because the rock down there
is like, so loose.
So as soon as you get down there the rocks just, like,
start tumbling down like an avalanche.
(vibrant electronic music)
So this cave was just a warm-up.
We're heading out here now, back up.
It's gonna take like probably 30 minutes
for them to pull us back up.
And we're gonna get out of here.
(upbeat pop music)
Just dangling from a rope about 100 meters deep in a cave.
Oh, being pulled like a bungee cord right now.
Oh, this is not a good feeling.
There's one single rope, and it feels like a bungee cord.
At any second I feel like this thing could snap.
Oh God.
I've been doing this pulling thing
where I've been pulling up.
Well, you can only pull so far.
Some ride.
I felt like at any point that rope was gonna snap.
But I was lucky it didn't.
Luckily, these guys know what they're doing.
But this was just the warm-up.
Tomorrow we go even bigger.
Twice the size of this one.
It's now 6:30 in the morning, and the sky out there
is pretty amazing over the mountaintops.
Right over there is just a ton, a ton of clouds.
And we're walking down now to find the swallows.
(serene music)
All the swallows are leaving.
I'm told that there's two million of these.
I don't know if I heard that right
but there's two million of them,
and what they're doing here is
behind me, they're circling like this
and then they're all leaving right behind me.
You can see them.
They're all leaving at sunrise.
So there's everyone here.
And after sunrise, we're actually going down
into this thing.
But this is crazy because you can...
It kind of looks like a tornado of swallows.
Whoa.
Look at that.
(inspirational music)
So when there's a cave like this
where you go in from the top it's called a sotano.
And a cenote, which a lot of people are familiar with,
is when there's water at the bottom.
This is just a giant cave that you go down from the top.
It's what's called Sotano de los Golondrinas.
It's a tongue twister for me but, yeah,
it's the Cave of the Swallows.
There's so many swallows coming out of here.
There was like 30, 40 minutes of just, of break,
like there were no birds coming out
but then, all of sudden, they start coming out again.
It's like this is the second wave,
like these ones were sleeping for a little bit longer.
There's a second wave of birds,
and they're all coming out now.
I was wondering why we haven't gone down yet.
But, apparently, they knew there was a second wave coming.
(inspirational music)
This is insane, Mundo. - Yeah.
(laughter)
- Oh my God.
We are descending into the depths of darkness.
I can't even see anything down there.
And we're on just the one single line.
I didn't even know...
This camera does not fully show how huge this cave is.
We are going so far down.
If you have a fear of heights,
I would not recommend doing this.
But luckily I don't really have a fear of heights, you know.
But this is, this is a whole other experience.
This is really extreme.
(exciting music)
400 hundred meters down.
- Totally, we gonna be down in the cave for 520 meters.
- Wow, like how often do you go into a cave?
Like every day?
Or like five days a week?
- No, I know, yesterday we went to different caves.
- So you get to do this a lot.
- Yeah, usually three, four times a week.
- I don't know if you guys can tell
but we are just spinning like crazy.
I would say we're probably about...
How far are we you think, 200 meters?
- Right now?
- Yeah.
We're halfway down there.
I can feel it.
It's getting pretty dark.
- Here is my friend, Collie.
He's coming down 400 meters on in the,
one of the deepest caves in the world,
Sotano de los Golondrinas, a legendary cave.
So we're very lucky to be down in this.
- Spinning like crazy.
- Yeah.
He almost gonna land. Yeah.
(upbeat music)
- You ever seen the movie, Avatar?
It feels like we're on another planet.
- Did you hear it?
Where is the camera?
I hear something.
(low grumble)
You don't hear anything, that noise?
- No.
- I don't know what it was.
(bird screech)
- You just hear these birds.
It's the parrots.
They're so squeak...it's cool.
Parrots?
- The other one? - Yeah.
- Hawks.
- Oh yeah, that was a hawk.
How many people get to come down into this cave?
Not as many.
At the bottom of this cave of swallows,
you can hear the hawks
which are the ones that eat the swallows.
You can also hear parrots occasionally.
All the swallows have left here which we saw earlier.
So all the swallows are gone but as you can imagine,
they pretty much line the walls if you were to be down here
when they were here.
And there's just piles and piles of bird crap everywhere.
Oh yeah, what is that?
- I think...
- It looks like claws.
- I know which birds.
It's the parrots or the swallows doing that.
- You think the birds are clawing it?
- Because they eat, maybe they eat this thing.
- Oh.
- You see?
- Yeah.
- When they don't coming out, when they don't go out
because it's a cold season, raining season
like a hurricane, they stay in here for three, four days.
So they need to eat something.
I don't know.
- Right.
- We need to put a camera in here,
leave it there for a couple of days, and see what is this.
- It's weird, it looks like a...
- Some kind of jail.
- That's what I was gonna say it looks like prison walls.
(energetic music)
Look at that.
There's like a cave down there.
Inside the cave.
What do you think lives in there?
(birds screeching)
That's the cave.
It doesn't look like you can get in unless you, like,
squeeze in through there.
- You can put something, whatever you want to put in it.
- Oh you can sign it?
- Yeah.
- I see you in there a couple times.
- Look.
- It's just a book of you.
- Look, one year ago, 26th of December.
25, 26 I came down two days.
- I'll put exploring with Cody.
- Yeah. - Look at that.
We're marked down in history now.
Don't disturb until 2100.
- This.
(tapping noise)
- Oh. So I wonder who is gonna be the person
to rush down here on New Year's Day 2000, 2100?
You think it will last that long?
- Yeah.
- We were just over there.
Doesn't it look so small?
I'm on the opposite side of the cave.
I've walked all the way up here.
The cave that we're in now, it's about as wide
as it is deep at the bottom here.
So 400 meters deep, 400 meters wide at the base here.
So I've probably been in here
exploring around for an hour now.
I have felt like it was a sauna.
It's very hot down here.
But I have to keep this helmet on and everything
to be protected from any falling rocks.
But we're gonna go and make the ascent now.
I'm gonna put everything in the backpack
and switch over to my phone.
Mundo says a lot of people don't necessarily do this
so to be one of the only people down here in this cave,
like, I have my name written in this book.
That amount of people have been down here
so it's kind of like being one
of the first people on the moon.
That's what it feels like.
Not necessarily as sacred but it feels very similar.
Hasta la vista.
- Hasta la vista, amigo.
You're like bungee. - Yeah.
This is insane.
I'm being lifted up right now.
We can only go one at a time.
They can't pull us both up because
I'm heavy alone as it is.
So I've got some Mission Impossible stuff
going on right now.
They're pulling me up away.
This is crazy.
I'm just spinning like non-stop.
I'm so glad I didn't eat anything
for breakfast this morning
'cause I'm just sitting here spinning.
Apparently, when there's a new rope
it just spins like crazy.
Look at what I'm looking at, guys.
Just nothingness
and spinning non-stop.
If this is making you dizzy, just imagine how I feel.
I've been up here for about 15 minutes.
Right now, I'm dangling, probably only 50 meters left.
Listen.
(hawk screeching)
There's a hawk, and he's circling me.
I think he thinks I'm food for him.
I've seen him fly by like twice now.
Nothing has ever felt better than being on solid ground.
Dangling almost 400 meters above the ground
as a bungee cord is like stringing you for half an hour,
it's not the best feeling.
I gotta say that was probably the most intense thing
I've ever done.
More than bungee jumping.
More than skydiving.
Coming up on that rope for half an hour,
you just sit there and spin and think about
all the things you could have done to help someone.
But, no seriously that was a lot of, that was a lot of fun.
We're now sending the rope back down for Mundo.
We've got about another half hour before he gets up here.
My guide, Mundo, was an absolute legend,
and I really appreciate all of his help.
I also want to give a huge thank you to Back Country
for making this adventure possible,
as well as Nick, the gearhead, who helped me choose
what I would need for this trip.
If you guys want to try a new adventure for yourself,
let Back Country help you plan it
by checking out the link in the description,
and using my code for an amazing discount
off of your first purchase.
And if you guys do, make sure to use the hashtag,
goatworthy on social media so that I know.
And guys, every time I finish one of these videos
my whole body is left completely aching.
But it was an incredible experience,
and really an unforgettable memory.
So thank you guys for watching and until next time
explore the world.
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