Article about Three Counties traverse

[David Rose]

My article about last weekend?s epic Three Counties traverse is now online and will be in tomorrow?s Daily Mail. Photos by Mark Burkey and Bartek Biela.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10034993/The-heroes-helped-rescue-trapped-Thai-boys-conquered-Britains-heart-darkness.html

 

[aricooperdavis]

Archive link for posterity: https://archive.is/KvT3S

 

[badger]

David thanks for sharing the link. for me was a good report, enough embellishment with fact for the general public. 

 

[PeteHall]

Somehow, David, your newsworthy article seems to have been replaced already on the mail website with a non-story about a YouTuber going down Daren. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10037615/Terrifying-moment-claustrophobic-daredevil-squeeze-INCHES-WIDE-gap-called-Vice.html?adobe_mc=TS%3D1632862240%7CMCAID%3D2F4B82B785159652-6000072989D6D517

 

[mikem]

Anyone recognise where he's talking about (on the through trip from cnwc):
"...the  first narrow gap known as 'The Armageddon' - which is 16 inches wide.

They continue to delve deeper into the cave system before pushing into a tighter 12-inch tunnel known as 'The Death Squeeze'.

...He eventually manages to free himself before the pair arrive at their next challenge - a nine-inch tunnel nicknamed 'The Narrow Slump'."

Before arriving at " 'one of the most claustrophobic squeezes in the world' - a gap know as 'The Vice' which narrows to just four inches wide." [My highlight] 

(His previous experience was in a sensory deprivation box - I feel he should have stayed there)

But then, is the three counties traverse really "the longest journey in underground UK"?

 

[PeteHall]

(His previous experience was in a sensory deprivation box - I feel he should have stayed there)

 

 

[David Rose]

I rather liked Caver Keith's Daren video, starring Chunky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Xbyy3q9Y4

PS my 3Cs piece is still there.

 

[PeteHall]

PS my 3Cs piece is still there.

Yes, if you have the link, or run a search. My comment was really that your article seemed to have been bumped off the home page by some drivel about a YouTuber getting scared down Daren, but that's been bumped off the home page too now. I guess that's the nature of the industry, chuck up a story on the home page and replace with something else within less than 24 hours.

 

[David Rose]

Yuo, that's what happens!

 

[mikem]

The YouTube video did only go online yesterday, so is current

 

[Ian P]

I have just clicked on David?s original link and the article is there but now with far more photos. (I even appear in 2  )

Nice article by the way