Imagine stalactites as icicle-like formations, but made from rock, not ice.

Visual Imagery

Stalactites form over centuries, so they symbolize a slow natural process.

Formation Process

Don't confuse stalactites with stalagmites, which grow upward from the cave floor.

Not Stalagmite

 around and just bear hugging a stalactite and like when I say do your hedges at one point out yeah kind of like I was just like hey just kind of like did like one of these that one yeah all right I got it and like when I say bear hugging I mean like fully wrapping your legs like around and hugging these tufas for dear life because you know

Rock-Climbing China: A...

 When you enter a quartzite cave, you have to completely forget what you know about caves -- classic limestone caves or the touristic caves that you can visit in several places in the world. Because what seems a simple stalactite here