Вторая река
The Second River
B2 · Upper Intermediate · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story
An upper-intermediate adventure four hundred metres underground. Five cavers go down a shaft found on winter aerial photographs, and rain on the surface closes the way out behind them. Rather than wait, they follow the draught: a black river with eyeless fish in it, a chamber whose ceiling the lamps never find, and seven handprints in red ochre that have been waiting twelve thousand years.
Characters
- Yegor (Егор) — The surveyor
- Lida (Лида) — Expedition leader
- Vera (Вера) — Doctor, biologist by training
- Seven hands (Семь ладоней) — In the niche
Vocabulary from this story
- пещера — cave
- вход — entrance
- выход — way out
- колодец — shaft
- меандр — meander
- зал — chamber
- сифон — sump
- галерея — gallery
- ниша — niche
- камин — chimney
- карниз — ledge
- потолок — ceiling