Fins que també vosaltres haguéssiu viatjat ...

Amb motiu de la trobada/conferencia Hidden Earth 2013, és produí un interessant vídeo de benvinguda, que ens plau inserir en aquest post.

El vídeo mostra com és l’espeleologia a Gal·les (i el Regne Unit). El seu disseny és una barreja divertida de clips de pel ·lícula. Un poema de Kei Miller titulada "Fins que també vosaltres haguéssiu viatjat" constitueix la base de la presentació. Més de 40 espeleòlegs, molts d'ells membres de South Wales Caving Club, apareixen en diversos estats de disconfort ... alguns d'ells fins i tot estan gaudint de les seves experiències.

'Until you too have journeyed'

Until you too have journeyed through caves,

through miles of damp and bats, the cool

of all that is not living; until your one torch

has flickered out and you have found yourself

in a dark so dark you forget your eyes

or if they are opened; until you've had to find
a way, inch by careful inch, stopping to invent

an arrow out of wind; until you discover

how the feel and sound of stone or pebble

can exist without an image, the very thought

of colour competing for the air; until you too

have lost the day and the day has lost you

and it dawns on you, how foolish to have come

willingly to where the dead are put - until then
do not scoff at what has become our common 

language for tomorrow and hope, this bright opening,

this end of dark, the light at the end of the tunnel.
Kei Miller 

El vídeo: 8 minuts

El programa de la Hidden Earth Caving Conference 2013