![]() ![]() There are steps leading from this entrance some thirty yards to what was, at the time the cavern was inhabited, the level of the river. Above a shelf which hid it from view from the river, was the mouth of the cave. There was no trail to this point, but I finally reached it with great difficulty. Some forty-two miles up the river from the El Tovar Crystal canyon, I saw on the east wall, stains in the sedimentary formation about 2,000 feet above the river bed. The story of how I found the cavern has been related, but in a paragraph: I was journeying down the Colorado river in a boat, alone, looking for mineral. A trip there would be fruitless, and the visitor would be sent on his way. The scientists wish to work unmolested, without fear of archaeological discoveries being disturbed by curio or relic hunters. It is located on government land and no visitor will be allowed there under penalty of trespass. The entrance is 1,486 feet down the sheer canyon wall. ![]() The area was described as being nearly inaccessible and surrounded by desolate, forbidding wilderness, and the more vocal Kincaid would say in his account of the discovery of the entrance and further study of it thus:įirst, I would impress that the cavern is nearly inaccessible. The two men were reportedly funded by Smithsonian’s Department of Anthropology, and claimed that they had found the entrance to the mysterious cavern system lying around 1,500 feet down the wall of a sheer cliff in a remote, undisclosed area. EMF Harmonized (Cell Phone, Wi-Fi, Radiation Protection.Barbara H Whitfield RT and Charles L Whitfield MD.Media Archive (Shows, Videos, Presentations).Into the Storm (Hosted by Justin Deschamps).
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