From a very young age, Colonel Xap Ashmead wanted to become an Astronaut. While he heart was set on this adventurous path, destiny was stunted by an insurmountable fear of heights. Just the thought of being set upon the moon or some other marvelous point in the cosmos, so high above the earth's surface, sent poor Ashmead into a swoon. But Ashmead inverted his ambitions and commited himself to bowels of the earth, seeking out subterranean escape from any confrontation with heights.
Tales of a bottomless pit in Cambodia's Yuno Wat jungle struck Colonel Ashemede as the perfect destination for his most recent spelunking excursion. There has yet to be a formal scientific inquiry into bottomlessness and its effects, and Xap Ashmeade's trials will be of great interest to the scientific community. On a personal level the Yuno Wat Bottomless Pit represented an anticlimactic paradise.
Funding for the copious lengths of rope needed for this exploration came from the Tweed Academy, where Ashmeade lectures. Admonishing the use of airplanes, Xap chartered the flattest barge he could find to Cambodia. There in the vine tangled jungles of Yuno Wat the Colonel said goodbye to the light of day and plunged into the earth's deepest secret.
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