Israeli spelunkers announced on March 27 that a salt cave near the Dead Sea was over ten kilometres long, beating Iran’s N3 cave in Qeshm to make it the world’s largest. The cave, named Malham, is a series of canyons running through Mount Sodom, Israel’s largest mountain, and spilling out to the southwest corner of the adjacent Dead Sea.
Efraim Cohen of the Israel Cave Explorers Club, and of the Malham Cave Mapping Expedition, shows journalists salt stalactites in the Malham cave inside Mount Sodom, located at the southern part of the Dead Sea in Israel on March 27, 2019. – Israeli spelunkers announced on March 27 that a salt cave near the Dead Sea was over ten kilometres long, beating Iran’s N3 cave in Qeshm to make it the world’s largest. The cave, named Malham, is a series of canyons running through Mount Sodom, Israel’s largest mountain, and spilling out to the southwest corner of the adjacent Dead Sea. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP/RSS)Journalists walk in the Malham cave inside Mount Sodom, located at the southern part of the Dead Sea in Israel on March 27, 2019. – Israeli spelunkers announced on March 27 that a salt cave near the Dead Sea was over ten kilometres long, beating Iran’s N3 cave in Qeshm to make it the world’s largest. The cave, named Malham, is a series of canyons running through Mount Sodom, Israel’s largest mountain, and spilling out to the southwest corner of the adjacent Dead Sea. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP/RSS)Yoav Negev, chairman of the Israel Cave Explorers Club and project leader of the Malham Cave Mapping Expedition, shows journalists salt stalactites in the Malham cave inside Mount Sodom, located at the southern part of the Dead Sea in Israel on March 27, 2019. – Israeli spelunkers announced on March 27 that a salt cave near the Dead Sea was over ten kilometres long, beating Iran’s N3 cave in Qeshm to make it the world’s largest. The cave, named Malham, is a series of canyons running through Mount Sodom, Israel’s largest mountain, and spilling out to the southwest corner of the adjacent Dead Sea. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP/RSS)Yoav Negev, a researcher at the Israel Cave Research Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, uses his torch light to examine salt stalactites hanging from the ceiling in the Malham Cave at the Dead Sea in Israel. Salt caves tend to only exist in highly arid regions, like the area around the Dead Sea, which is located at the lowest point on earth and is too salty to support animal life. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit/RSS)Efi Cohen (left), and Yoav Negev researchers at the Israel Cave Research Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, examine salt stalactites hanging from the ceiling in the Malham Cave at the Dead Sea in Israeli. Salt caves are unusual and rare geological features. Because it is highly water soluble, large salt deposits do not normally survive long on the surface. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit/RSS)
