They produce a steadier, brighter light.

But they are held in hand, and they illuminate the immediate environment rather than the passage ahead, and visitors experience something closer to what it meant to navigate by personal flame.

The tour passes near the boulder that killed the miner in 1935.

Guides stop and describe the discovery, the circumstances of his death, and the decisions made about his remains.

The metal straps used in the 1935 recovery are still visible on the boulder — physical evidence of the moment his story entered the modern world.