French researcher Michel Siffre made a series of remarkable discoveries after embarking on a particularly cold, dark, and wet camping trip. However, unlike America's camp-friendly national parks and ...
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He Vanished Into a Cave for 63 Days—And Came Out with a Discovery That Still Shapes Science 60 Years Later
In the summer of 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre descended 130 meters into the Scarasson cave in the French Alps. He left behind sunlight, clocks and calendars — and didn’t return for 63 days.
At the edge of a deep chasm in the French Alps on July 16, 1962, a young researcher took off his watch, checked his provisions and grabbed hold of a rope ladder. He was enveloped by darkness. For the ...
Michel Siffre, who has died aged 85, was a speleologist and self-styled “chronobiologist”, who conducted experiments to determine the effects of long periods of time spent underground and find out how ...
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