This short film shows the best photos of the year from caving expeditions with the Frankfurt chapter of the Deutscher Alpenverein (german alpine club, DAV). It begins with small caves in the Loferer Steinberge (Austria), where the chapter does the bulk of its exploration (prominently the Loferer Schacht and the Kreuzhöhle), then shows a cave in the Schwäbische Alb (Germany) and finally five beautiful caverns in the French Jura.

00:00 Namenloses Loch, Loferer Steinberge (AT)
01:31 Laschenschmeisser, Loferer Steinberge (AT)
02:08 Todsburger Schacht, Schwäbische Alb (DE)
03:19 Gouffre de Rappant, Jura (FR)
06:18 Gouffre des Ordons, Jura (FR)
07:43 Gouffre des Biefs Boussets, Jura (FR)
09:02 Gouffre Brizon, Jura (FR)
09:48 Gouffre du Cul du Vau, Jura (FR)

Photography by Ulrich C. Beinert
Additional photography by Oliver Kube & Thomas Häusser

Cavers: Fred Bauer, Ute Becker, Ulrich Beinert, Dagmar Cords, Carsten Ebenau, Mark Franken, Thomas Häusser, Julius Krause, Oliver Kube, Larissa Lupp, Tobias Schorer, Oliver Schürmann, Kathrin Wilhelm, Frank Wolf, Karl-Heinz Ziegenhain

Music: "Journey to the Sun" by Stellardrone from the album "On a Beam of Light", released November 18, 2009 under Creative Commons license.

All photos taken with an Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II camera with Olympus 12-24 mm f/2.8 PRO lens.

Thanks go to my cave photography inspiration: Sirio Sechi, Peter Gedei, Robbie Shone and Dinko Stopić, and to the astronauts of NASA, ESA and Roscosmos, who train hard (among many places, in caves) to reach for their dreams in space, just as I am reaching for this dream.

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