Three days in Son Doong, the world's largest cave passage
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Vietnam's Son Doong, the world's largest cave passage, started its life millions of years ago as a crack the width of a piece of hair. Today, adventurers marvel at the surreal caverns in its depths.
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60 Minutes Overtime A man stumbled on Vietnam's Son Doong, the world's largest cave passage. It took him years to find it again. By Scott Pelley , Scott Pelley Correspondent, 60 Minutes Scott Pelley, one of the most experienced and awarded journalists today, has been reporting stories for 60 Minutes since 2004. The 2024-25 season is his 21st on the broadcast. Scott has won half of all major awards earned by 60 Minutes during his tenure at the venerable CBS newsmagazine. Read Full Bio Scott Pelley , Aliza Chasan , Aliza Chasan Digital Content Producer Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza covers trending news, often focusing on crime and politics. Read Full Bio Aliza Chasan , Nicole Young , Kristin Steve March 29, 2026 / 7:33 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Vietnam's Son Doong is big enough to fit a skyscraper, but despite its immense size, it took 18 years for Ho Khanh, the man who first found the entrance, to rediscover Hang Son Doong, deep inside a Vietnamese jungle. In 2009, Peter MacNab, along with a five-man team, were the first to explore the cave after Ho Khanh's discovery. They descended into darkness, with no idea what lay inside the depths of Son Doong. "Every corner you went round was completely new, completely exciting," MacNab said. "And it just kept getting better and better as you went into the cave. It was absolutely spectacular." Trekking through the jungle to Son Doong MacNab recently returned to the cave with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. The only way to get to Son Doong is on foot. There was a group of 53, mostly porters carrying camping equipment and TV gear, and experts in safety and climbing. Visitors need to splash through 20 river crossings en route to the cave. The jungle, in the Truong Son range between Laos and the South China Sea, is home to tigers and leeches. Th...
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