That's the calm Caver mentality, without it one could perish during unanticipated events. Years ago, 8 of my friends had just entered a cave for a multi hour e

That's the calm Caver mentality, without it one could perish during unanticipated events. Years ago, 8 of my friends had just entered a cave for a multi hour exploration/survey trip when an accidentally kicked boulder fell, blocking all of them inside, leaving myself and two Park Service seasonal employees outside. I told them to go on with their survey and I'd have the passage dug open within the 5 hours we allotted. They calmly went off to do their survey, I set to work digging them out and just about 5 hours later I had the passage open and they arrived on scheduled quite happy I'd dug them out. They all told me they knew I'd have them dug out by the time they returned. In July we're meeting in Sequoia National Park for the 30th anny of the discovery of that cave.