Full cooking instructions. For the ingredients, you'll need an AS with some longer Dyneema cord. You can do the same thing with just a bowline, but maybe this is more convenient to adjust? There are other clever ways to do this -- at one point Starless River made ingenious adjustable footloops...

Agreed. Topos are more helpful when they show the safer/more thorough way of rigging, rather than the minimalist way. If I don't know the cave (which is when a topo is most relevant), then I'd rather the topo showed a bit too much rather than a bit too little. I do of course carry spare slings &...

...then please send me a private message! I allowed a party of three cavers to use our ropes. We saw them come down the last pitch very fast: two "free fall" abseils on Stops with no braking krabs. Three of our ropes are now badly glazed and burnt. Following an inspection, the ropes must be...

Found a carabiner in Rowten, clipped to a bolt on the muddy traverse of Eyehole route. This was on Thursday 13th April. Describe the carabiner and we can arrange its return.

One of the fixed ropes in Pwll Dwfn is severely damaged. It's the rope on the third pitch. The damage was on the left ear of the Y-hang, just where the rope enters the knot. I pulled through a few metres of slack, so that the damaged part is now on the traverse line and isolated within a knot...

I've been using a "backwards C-rig" to thread my descender. I can't see any problem with this, but I'd like to know what other people think -- because maybe I missed something! So my question is this: in terms of safety, how does backwards C-rigging compare to normal C-rigging? The known...

This charming video is worth it just for the sock-puppetry and other silliness. Proof, were it needed, that the French are irredeemably bonkers. My personal favourite is the flawless demonstration of how to leave the rockfall zone after shouting "rope free!" :lol: It's also detailed and...

I'm hearing conflicting information from people in my local cave club, who are planning a trip. One person is advocating spending ?300 on a pulley and a boat, which seems excessive to me. So I have a few questions: What's the current state of the ropes? (I note some recent cause for concern.)...