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Picture of a person in a yellow coat crossing a waterfall in New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Chasing Waterfalls

A story in the September 2006 issue featured a team of 12 people exploring and documenting a series of river caves in New Britain, an island off of Papua New Guinea. Here, one of the explorers attempts to cross Ora Waterfall, where the underground river bursts forth.
Photograph by Stephen Alvarez, Nat Geo Image Collection