TRAKS and Majilis Al Jin

Majilis Al Jin is the second largest cave in the world, to give you an idea of how big it is, you could fit 10 747's in there. More importantly, for all you thrill seekers out there, it's over 150 meter free standing abseil!

One word comes to mind when talking about Majilis Al FUN, rope, bring a lot of it.

Always a nice bunch to see when you go there is the kids who live literally on top of the cave.

This one found a great use for a spent spool of 200m of Beal static rope. He was dancing around with his new toy for half an hour. Luckily we had 3 of these spools so everybody got one. No Playstation for these Omani's

Coming out the cave.

Clean rigging and good Beal rope - two key ingredients to keeping things safe. Anything else is just cheap and asking for trouble.

Chemical anchor bolts are a safer bet for the kind of limestone found in the region. Note the Hilti drill bit that melted and fused (!!) with the rock - Excalibur style: it will be waiting for Merlin or Hilti engineers during their next trip to MAJ! Whichever one comes first...

Dummy waving for the camera when he should be focusing on his ascend! No worries the overhang above will wake him up.

Everybody's favorite overhang.

Fins the village where you go from sea level to the Salamah Plateau - 1300m up in 4km horizontal distance.