David Rose
Active member
I am working a new book about caving. To be entitled The World beneath the World: Caves and their Explorers, it is to be published by Penguin/Michael Joseph. The plan is to combine some history, personal experience and a few gripping yarns in order to explain why caving is such a fantastic activity. I hope that both cavers and non-cavers will find it interesting. Above all, it will try to capture what caving is really about.
I want to include a chapter about the French "golden age" that runs roughly from the exploration of the Dent des Crolles to the exploration of the Gouffre Berger. For this, I would really like to get on a trip down the Berger, if possible next year. I haven't been down the cave before. So this is an appeal for help: for a team out there to do me a huge favour and invite me to join it for a week or ten days. I'm an ageing fart but still reasonably fit, and still going down fairly hard caves.
If there is a club that might consider this, please send me a personal message. Your reward would be to be immortalised in print.
I want to include a chapter about the French "golden age" that runs roughly from the exploration of the Dent des Crolles to the exploration of the Gouffre Berger. For this, I would really like to get on a trip down the Berger, if possible next year. I haven't been down the cave before. So this is an appeal for help: for a team out there to do me a huge favour and invite me to join it for a week or ten days. I'm an ageing fart but still reasonably fit, and still going down fairly hard caves.
If there is a club that might consider this, please send me a personal message. Your reward would be to be immortalised in print.