This is a really long shot but in the internet era I suddenly thought it might be worth a try. After the Iran 77 trip on which I had kept a detailed daily log my late mother very kindly typed it up. It was about 70 pages and fortunately there was a (poor) carbon copy. At a meeting on Mendip sometime in 1978 a fellow caver asked if he could borrow the original. I never saw it again and cannot remember to whom I lent it. I wondered if anybody had ever come across it or had it in their possession. If so I wouldn't mind getting it back as I am thinking of creating aillustrated  book of the trip and it would help to have a better copy of that typed log.

Also a long shot but I just googled the following : cave expedition iran 1977

This came up (and more). Perhaps you can find some reference points (names) . Was ithis expedition?


http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/gkaufma/caving/iran/Iran_references.html

Lewis, R.G. (1979): British speleological expedition to Iran, 1977. - Trans. British Cave Research Assoc., 6 (2), pp. 51 - 69.

http://www.geoffrichings.co.uk/iransite/iranindex.html
http://caving-in-iran.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=139&lang=en&showall=1

A video clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjHK8DWAEEE

Unfortunately I contributed to most of this so it was not news although it was interesting to see that Geoff Richings has put up a page on the trip - many photos are very similar to mine not surprisingly. The video clip was uploaded from a cinefilm I made on the trip. Wish I could have afforded more film as I used most of it up on the long journey out.

Well, at least you can put yourself up there with T.E. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Ernest Hemingway!

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/23/1000-novels-lost-manuscripts

I once inadvertently left a rolled-up set of early 25" and 6" Ordnance Survey maps of the Llangattock area in the high-level net rest between the seats on a train headed for Southend-on-Sea, having got off in a hurry at or around Billericay in late 1984. I tried to get them back through the local station where I got off and the destination station, plus the BR lost property department - with the latter informing me that they didn't have them and, if they received them and they weren't collected within a relatively short period of time, then they would sell them off at auction! The latter was most perverse because the BR lost property department weren't prepared to inform me if they did receive the maps! The worst part was I had spent ages hand colouring the 25" maps to match the pastel shadings on the original copies, from which the new copies had been made in the British Library Map Library!

And, similarly to you, back in the 1980s I photographed a set of 35mm slides in the then new extension to Llanelly Quarry Pot, with one showing the Michelin Man formation in the streamway, another of Mike Green at the Mike's Beard formation and a set up in the Totem Aven Series. Many of which I'd dearly love to be able to include in my forthcoming book on 'The Caves of Llangattock Mountain'. However, whilst living at Peter Bolt's house in Cardiff, c.1988, I lent the box of slides to some caver who called in and was exploring Llanelly Quarry Pot at the time, and about to give a lecture on the finds to some rotary club (or other), and he NEVER RETURNED THEM ! ! !

Bloody annoying isn't it. It was probably somebody you trusted as well. Perhaps someone will remember the talk and who presented it!

Never a borrower nor a lender be

mrodoc said:

Bloody annoying isn't it. It was probably somebody you trusted as well. Perhaps someone will remember the talk and who presented it!

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A good point. I'm wondering whether anyone might one day come across the pictures - because there weren't many taken up in the Totem Aven Series before it was derigged. In fact, my picture of Mike Green, with his beard, by the Mike's Beard formation named after him, must be almost unique!

And I won't be cross if I get them back in time to be able to include them in the book - because I haven't particularly needed them in the meantime! Perhaps you'll also suddenly get a call, letter or e-mail out of the blue and someone somewhere will have found your original typescript copy of the Iran 77 log, too . . .

rhychydwr1 said:

Never a borrower nor a lender be

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Well, that's just zilched mortgages and the whole UK housing market, including credit cards for good measure! Not to mention lending libraries . . .

Clive G said:

rhychydwr1 said:

Never a borrower nor a lender be

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Well, that's just zilched mortgages and the whole UK housing market, including credit cards for good measure! Not to mention lending libraries . . .

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