Eleven Kilometres to Daylight

Nineteen seconds of audio is all that remains of the survey team who vanished into Mabu, a four-hundred-metre sinkhole in the Papuan highlands: water, a dense pattern of clicks, then a scream. Leila Hobbs hasn't dived since a sump collapse killed her partner, but the money offered will clear a debt she can't otherwise pay. Sixty hours before the monsoon closes the mountain's mouth, she descends. The way back up will not be waiting.