I did the official tour during summer 2021 and thought it was quite interesting historically - it was a self-guided tour: you get a download for your phone with audio that tells you what you are looking at at each place - and you could go more or less at your own pace.

1/16777216 kg-force is the modification to the gravitational force produced by about 875 missing tons of rock at a depth of 10 metres on a 1kg weight - equivalent to a sphere with a radius of about 4.5 metres in limestone. That's quite a big void quite close to the surface, but not rediculously...

He has a popular YouTube channel, with about 4.5 million subscribers - and his videos have had over a billion views from all over the World. https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo He's just started a second channel on YouTube, where he posted the video of Peak Cavern...

We could invite him to West Mine at Alderley for a dry trip if water+cave is too much?

The current sport climbing is using: Speed Climbing => analogy could be Speed SRT - time to climb, changeover, and descend a 30 m free-hanging single rope Bouldering => A series of artificial caves with lots of twists, turns and squeezes, where you have to contort your body in a certain way to...

From what I understand, if you went and visited the main Facebook page of any Australian news organisation, ABC news Australia, Sydney Morning Herald etc, then there was nothing there at all: no posts, no photos, no stories, no links etc. It was like the page didn't exist. You can verify this by...

I did hear a few years back that Facebook were going to gradually reduce "organic reach" - the number of people who were going to get Facebook Page content appearing in their feeds, recommendations, search results etc. without you having to pay Facebook - potentially until it was functionally...

24 is Buckfast Abbey in Devon How many remain unfound?

Definitely right with these two. Did a Scottish roadtrip in August when lockdown was eased and visited them both. I've got a photo a bit like #9 at Dunnet Head - Great Britain's most northerly point - and my photo of the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse looks similar but is of the other side - the car...

It's not strictly within YT's terms of service, but there are other websites that allow you to download a local copy of videos, that can be kept just in case they remove their own online one.

I suspect when the full statement is released tomorrow - with details of what you can and can't do: that it'll be "sport with those you share a household with" and not family as such. So no caving with family members that you aren't living with. i.e. same as now - you are allowed out of the...

It's already in the Wikipedia article, but the 1967 incident in Carlswark Cavern - where 14-year-old Robert Fraser MacDonald drowned https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19670202/887/0031 It was stated that they were on a Whitehall Pursuit course at the time. The only...

It's possible there is a 2nd incident that year perhaps. If I get a minute I might go to the library and have a look through the local newspaper archives. There are loads of reports of non-fatal accidents too. I think the most bizarre is a 1960 court hearing reporting that a fight had broken...

I have several newspaper cuttings for Alderley Edge incidents; The 1909 incident was Alec Rae, rather than Reay The 1946 incident I know about was Arthur Wrigley Murray, aged 16. He fell down Plank Shaft in West Mine trying to rescue his friend who also had fallen down it but survived. There's...

The England and Wales Birth & Death Registration Indices have a Mark William Dowsett (double t) born September 1969, registered at Grantham, Lincolnshire - and died Feb 1985, registered at Bakewell, Derbyshire. This should be based on the information on the birth and death certificates, so...

It was almost next to the SRT race area.

A trip to the "Fantasmas" in Coventosa? It's not too far from the Matienzo area that Juan mentioned above and there are some extremely impressive formations. I've found a video showing some of the cave here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NLhCuEOP5o

Frank Shaft in West Mine is pretty much bob-on 20 metres if you are at Alderley tonight, and can be set up to be free-hanging without touching the sides I think. It's got an optional bar about 2/3 of the way up for a re-belay if you want to make the surveying more interesting. At the end of the...

I entered this one in 2017 in the video salon where it got a Merit; Name: Bagshawe Cavern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibRWhlZznpE

There are some slightly tougher monetisation rules for YouTube since the start of 2018. To qualify to monetise at all you need at least 1,000 subscribers and at least 4,000 hours of watch time per year. Not likely an issue if you are getting millions of views, but it could take a while for...