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Cavers
I have never seen "spelunker" in any caving literature.
Revising my previous answer, having learnt more about it since, "spelunkers" was name coined by a group of New England caving club for themselves in the 1940s; and rather grandly combines Latin and Greek words for "cave". It was used happily and neutrally in the US (but rarely anywhere else) until the 1960s, when American cavers themselves started to turn it into a derogatory term for poorly-equipped and none-too-competent novices and dilettantes.
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The proper term throughout the English-speaking world is "caver".
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TaigaGenuine "exploration", i.e. investigating and surveying a newly-found cave, is called just that, "exploration".
The term is also used loosely for simply visiting a cave as a "tourist caver" for its aesthetic and sporting appeal, but not for visiting a show-cave as an ordinary tourist.
Studying caves and their contents scientifically is called "speleology" and covers a range of scientific disciplines and specialities.
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