From Summit to Subterranean: Chasing Adventure in San Antonio, Texas | National Geographic

When you're in the cave, you're so hyper-focused because there's no distractions, and so for me, it's almost meditative.

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I started in adventure photography with winter sports. Now I'm here in Texas to find that adventure, but underground. Hi, it's great to see you. Good to see you in person. This is my friend Junior; he's going to join us today.

So, this area, there was a sinkhole collapse. All that's left is the Natural Bridge; that's where we get our name from. When I look at the cave, it almost feels like you're in another planet. It's exhilarating, and there's a surprise around every corner. This is why we're the biggest cave in Texas.

This is the bottom of the Hall of the Mountain King; it's just huge and magnificent. How beautiful! 5,000 years ago, there were bats in our cavern. That circle is an ancient bat roost. They had that sinkhole collapse and decided there was probably a nicer cave down the street.

All right, if you're up for adventure, we've got wild caving too, that takes you through parts of the cave that are not lit.

Yeah, let's do it!

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So, you always want to have three points of contact; that keeps you from slipping. Wild caving was one of the coolest things I've done in a really long time.

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I think it's a really cool way to be reminded of how small we are as humans. When you go in these caves that are millions and millions of years old, and you see a little piece of rock that took hundreds of years to build, you remember that we're just a little blip in time.

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Texas is really exciting to me. It's very grandiose and feels really enchanting. It's just full of so many natural wonders that have the power to take your breath away.

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