Thompson, who worked as a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park for six years, relates his experiences on the job and exploring the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert. He overcame a fear of tight spaces and heights, learned to climb rope, and explored vertical caves in the Guadalupe Mountains of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, including Lechuguilla Cave. He also joined the park's technical rescue team and rappelled into one of the deepest underground pits in the US. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
For six exciting years Doug Thompson worked as a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. In Underground Ranger he passes along the essence of what he learned on this unusual job. He overcame his fear of tight spaces and heights, learned to climb rope, and went on to explore many of the deep vertical caves in the Guadalupe Mountains of west Texas and southeastern New Mexicoincluding Lechuguilla Cave, one of the most spectacular underground wonders of the world. He even became a member of the parks technical rescue team and made a fifty-story rappel into one of the worlds deepest underground pits. He also describes his adventures exploring the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert and shows how caves are related to the earths surface in a variety of ways, especially through the creative actions of water.
In Underground Ranger Doug Thompson passes along the essence of what he learned on this unusual job as a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
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