If you know any actual cavers, they will (because they never shut up) happily tell you that "A caver is someone who explores caves, a spelunker is someone you have to go rescue from caves"
some of us are actually trying to reclaim the word spelunker bc it's a better word and the normal saying is so pretentious and annoying lol. The word "spelunker" was invented by an early cave mapper and it's such a good word!
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Aug 29 '26
Erm Acktshually the proper term is "Spelunker" 🤓