Local authorities in Quang Binh Province have recommended presenting a Labour Medal of Grade 3 to a British cave researcher.
Howard Limbert, chief of the British Cave Research Association, has had a strong attachment to the mountains in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang area of Quang Binh Province for past 24 years.
He searches the mountains there for caves and has found hundreds there. Limbert has added more than 200km of Vietnamese caves to internationally recognised the world lists.
Howard Limbert (Left)
He, along with other members of his team, have taken hundreds of spectacular photos of caves in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang area. Thanks to these photos, a number of television channels, including the BBC, NHK and National Geographic have come to feature the area, along with other media outlets such as the AP, AFP and Kyodo.
The world's largest cave is called Son Doong Cave and is located in Quang Binh Province. It was found by a local man named Ho Khanh in 1991 and was recently rediscovered in 2009 by a team of British cavers, led by Howard Limbert.
