National Geographic Adventure Magazine: March 2002

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Go behind the scenes of the Adventure assignment that took writer Robert Young Pelton inside Green Beret operations and face-to-face with John Walker Lindh—includes exclusive photographs >>

Q & A

Exposing Tennessee's Titanic Cave Chamber
Photographer Chris Anderson reveals how the largest—and perhaps most secret—cave room in the eastern U.S. was finally revealed >>

In the Magazine

Excerpts
•	Climbing Joshua Tree National Park
•	X Marked the Spot—Hunting Pirate Treasure off Africa
•	Heavy D & the Boys—In the Field With an Afghan Warlord
•	Riders of the Lost Plateau—Snowboarding Montana's Beartooth Mountains

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