Baltimore-Based caver Dr. Lewis A. Bicking, Jr., was exceptionally bright-some would have said brilliant. He was valedictorian of his high school class and earned a Ph.D. at a relatively young age. Bicking was a scientist and, in his spare time, he was also a cave explorer. Lew worked and studied in the Biophysics Department at Johns Hopkins University during nearly the entirety of his caving career.
