Opened in 1846, the quarry boomed during the Industrial Revolution, when a 17,000-strong workforce extracted half a million tons of the gray rock per year to export across the globe. Today, only above ...

At check-in, guests receive a hard hat, head lamp, boots and a mountain guide. The journey — about 1,400 feet underground to the world's deepest hotel in the north Wales region of Snowdonia — takes ...

This new thrill ride from Go Below Underground Adventures sits in an abandoned slate mine 375 meters beneath the mountains of Wales' Snowdonia National Park. It became the deepest zip line in the ...

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Welcome to the world’s deepest sleep—a hotel 1,375 feet underground, accessible only by hike, zip line, and flooded chambers. Deep Sleep is located in a disused Victorian slate mine below Snowdonia in ...

FIREFIGHTERS from Keswick spent a morning deep underground at Honister Slate Mine as part of a training and familiarisation visit.