“We give recognition to our award recipients as the best in class, the prime movers that drive the state’s path and economic growth. In his speech during the awards ceremony, SCCI president Datuk Abang Abdul Karim Tun Openg said the EOYS awards had so far recognised over 60 successful entrepreneurs across Sarawak since its inception in 2004. The awards ceremony, held earlier this week, was organised by Ministry of International Trade and Investment, Sarawak in association with Sarawak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and Ernst & Young (EY). SIX locals were awarded during Sarawak Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (EOYS) 2021 in recognition of their business acumen and contribution to the state’s economic growth, made harder by the Covid-19 pandemic. Mulu, of which the Good Luck Cave with the Sarawak Chamber is a part.(From left) Dayang, Hii, Lim, Wong, Yong and Rewi posing with their awards. Description of the Hidden Valley cave complex at Mt.House of Leaves (2000) 2nd Edition, Pantheon Books New York, pg 125.
Facts and Fallacies - Stories of the Strange and Unusual. The second is the erosion of the soft limestone and other rocks, and coupled with high rainfall of the surrounding rainforest, these processes made the chamber we see today. The first of which is uplift in the soil, occurring between 2 and 5 million years ago. The story of how it was discovered is told in a 1985 book Underground Worlds by Donald Jackson and also in Giant Caves of Borneo by Meredith, Wooldridge and Lyon!!! This long passage has a roof of at least 60 metres high, and does require some swimming and a traverse along a ledge. To reach the Sarawak Chamber, one must follow the river upstream from the cave entrance. The cave was in a region filled with at-that-time newly-discovered caves in the Gunung Mulu National Park, and this particular one is called Lubang Nasib Bagus or Good Luck Cave. The chamber is now firmly situated as the largest in the world. The Sarawak Chamber measured 700 m (2,300 feet) long, 400 m (1,300 feet) wide and at least 70 m (230 feet) high. Later named the Sarawak Chamber, it was three times the size of the Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, previously thought to be the largest underground chamber. Even with their powerful lamps, the explorers could not see the other end of the chamber they had entered the largest known enclosed space in the world. While they were surveying some of the newly found caves in the region, they stumbled into what seemed to be a huge cavern.
Andy Eavis, Dave Checkley and Tony White (all experienced cave explorers) had been exploring the dense, unpopulated area of the Gunung Mulu National Park jungle in Sarawak, in the north of Borneo, in an expedition led by fellow Englishman Ben Lyon. The chamber was discovered by three Englishmen in January 1981.
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