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The Naica Cave

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The Crystal Cave in the Northern Mexico Desert

Every expedition there's some point where it's a bridge too far. When i went into the darvasa gates of heall burning gas crater, we had safety back up after safety back up. One place that george went that i can fully and freely admit to being jealous of is that real life fortress of solitude deep under the northern mexican desert, the crystal cave. If you've ever been to a rock and gem shock, if you've ever seen a geode like those amethyst, those purple amethyst geods, imagine one of those, but the crystals are white, and they are just absolutely massiveth That's exactly what this is. It's the world

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