Oct 16 '11
National Geographic Magazine: Deep Down Under | With ropes but no GPS, daring Aussies plunge into the hidden canyons of the Blue Mountains.

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By Mark Jenkins
Photograph by Carsten Peter
The Swiss have mountains, so they climb. Canadians have lakes, so they canoe. The Australians have canyons, so they go canyoneering, a hybrid form of madness halfway between mountaineering and caving in which you go down instead of up, often through…

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    really want/need...Blue Mountains (though that’s not true; no one can claim them) seeing...
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    totally missed canyoneering. Next time…
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    Mountains last weekend...from) Black Stump. It...beautiful...
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