Points to Diana for having enough sense to bring along some basic safety equipment. While the drawing in panel 2 doesn’t suggest a very long length of rope, I’ll give Jules Rivera a bit of artistic license in this case; within reason. But I’m surprised Diana expected to find places to attach a rope. So, how fragile are those stalagmites, anyway?

I do like the cutaway view of the cave in panel 3; it’s like watching an ant farm. But it is also a convenient technique for giving a panoramic view of the group’s progress.

Did anybody catch my literary pun in the today’s title? I don’t claim to be clever, but the phrase just popped out of my head, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus (ignore that allusion; it’s just my academic-era PTSD showing up again).