Mysteries of the Desert: Exploring in the Middle of Nowhere

[Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh dips all right so it's kind of like pepper sauce all over again kind of how far does this go I don't know let's take a look okay with your big feet you're gonna need to go sidewards oh foreign [Music] yeah we'll do this side first and then have a check on that one all right okay that's all blackened that's the lava mind your head duck or grouse and now we need a torch okay all right I've got the head torches yep on ready to go we're gonna have to stoop down real low oh it does open up a bit more which is good can you stand yet oh nice almost and now I can wow foreign and also thinking about how long ago this was formed and then who found this well I can't tell you who found it probably Native Americans but I can tell you this lava tube was formed when molten balsatic lava flowed and it hardened at the top but underneath it kept on flowing carving these tunnels when the eruption stopped the lava flowed out of the end forming this hollow tube did you know that the first lava Cinder Cones were formed over 7.6 million years ago but the lava continued flowing up until 10 000 years ago true story and there's this this is the end now apparently certain times of the day when the sun shines at a certain time it kind of looks like rainbow colors come through oh yeah Bounce Off The Rock but it's an overcast day today there's a bird's nest up there oh yeah business or pack right cool nice [Music] kind of does look like there's a fire been a fire in here yeah that's what I said because it doesn't have that all volcanic look some of it looked really really dark which I know volcanic rock is you know quite dark and stuff but oh yeah see here there's remnants of a campfire I was gonna say maybe well that's obviously new but maybe the natives used to hide out in here yeah I would I mean if it's not raining this would be great to get out of the heat because it's very cool in here foreign look at that it kind of appears from this angle that that's like a a drift going way off into the distance but it's actually on the ceiling we're heading upwards towards the ceiling as you can see maybe down there that's where we came in from you can see the light shining so maybe we'll have Andrea go stand over there to give up a point of reference and there we go there's the lovely Andrea standing at the the entrance that we crawled in here through and then just above I think you could crawl up in there that's about your size well my size well five foot three and a half and that half an inch is really important you think I could get in there [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] as we came in as you can see it's just all caved in doesn't go anywhere but just to be thorough and certain see pinches out okay so uh what's next let's see what other secrets and surprises the Mojave has to offer foreign [Music] [Music]