Harry could not hear anything over the rattling of the cart on the tracks: His hair flew behind him as they swerved between stalactites, flying ever deeper into the earth, but he kept glancing back.
" The inside looks like a crystal cave because the limestone has leaked calcite into little stalactites, " says Lin, who entered the tomb and used lidar (light detection and ranging) to explore it on the show.
After switching on powerful arc lights, they saw great stalagmites -- some of them over forty feet high -- rising up like tree-trunks to meet the stalactites suspended from the roof.
On the spectrum from wonder to disgust, I'd say I was pretty firmly toward the latter — especially based on the many experiences I've had wiping stalactites of snot from my toddler's nose, something she and I both hate.