Expedition team members stand on a cliff's edge during their trek toward Dark Star, a limestone cave system in Uzbekistan's Boysuntov Range.

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View looking up the flat slab on top of the Baisun-Tau plateau towards the edge of the cliff where National Geographic writer Mark Synnott and photo assistant Matt Oliphant walk close to the edge of the cliff. The main contacts for this expedition were Tonya Votintseva - and Vadim Loginov -

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Location: Uzbekistan.
Photo credit: © Robbie Shone / Alamy / Afripics
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