To cavers interested in cave science it would be an anathema to 'explore' caves without including an element of cave science in their work, whether it be carrying out measurements, plans and sections of the passages found, allied with a photographic and written record, or doing more involved...

I was reading your reports with great interest as you wrote this! Years ago (early 1980s) I made up a file of reports of pushing Mossdale with a view to going there one day, but that day has still to come . . . Remember that if the draught picks up noticeably whilst you're underground it's...

Not a cave plaque for one individual, but a group of individuals: Chartist Cave - http://www.ogof.org.uk/chartists-cave.html Here's a link to an image of the Mossdale Caverns plaque...

This is quite right. The most recent scientific overview of the Llangattock Cave System is the one available in Limestones and caves of Wales (1989). Older papers and publications are referenced at the end of the chapter. I'm amazed, given Bill Gascoine had died, that I heard from no one when...

On 10th July I thought Elon Musk - who had a 'working hyperbaric rescue chamber delivered direct to the cave where it was to be used' - had been poorly treated by the media and correspondingly wrote an e-mail to one of The Guardian Online reporters working on the Thai rescue story, including the...

I thought I'd been able to remember quite a lot from 32 years ago off the top of my head, but then you referred me to the very complex survey for Cueva del Agua! So, I've resorted to reading up the Agua '86 report by Gavin Newman and Julian Walker in Caves & Caving (36), Summer 1987, 15-17. I...

Having been browsing around the forum checking up on the details for the start of the road-widening works in the Clydach Gorge, when the Old Drum & Monkey Inn was demolished in 2015, I spotted this thread and thought I'd pop in to say this is very good news of the forthcoming planned new...

The late Lindsay Dodd, who was the sound recordist who worked closely with Sid Perou on his Beneath the Pennines series of films, was the caving and specialist technical advisor behind 'Once in a Lifetime: The Underground Eiger' (1979), directed by Barry Cockcroft for Yorkshire Television...

Is there an online version of the original transfer of the recordings that I could download to see if I can make some improvement? It would need to be the original untreated versions to stand a chance of doing something useful.

I recently mentioned to one of the staff at the National Archives about the apparent need to do something about the foxes that appeared to be removing the cygnets there at a fast rate of knots: down from the original hatch of seven to three. But then one of them turned back up again, as if it...

If caving is going to go along with 'the scene', then in spite of the fact there's a book out there with the same name (by the inventor of Descent), given you want to include caving, potholing and mines exploration, it would have to be something like: Underground Britain But - thanks to...

Well, the ladder you mention was in better condition than the one I removed from the pitch down into the Promised Land, but it was left out of reach up in the air! John Parker did the climb and rigged a ladder up there and is the only person I'm aware of who has done any serious looking around...

Use something like Photobucket.com (no subscription charge) to upload your images to an online server and then, after selecting the specific image you want to include in the posting, which should take you to a page with the image on its own, plus the various links required for 'sharing' the...

And a second, closer view of the same scene: Peter Bolt communicating from Archies, Updweeb, in Daren Cilau to Stuart France at the Severn Beach, Priory Road, in Agen Allwedd, 27th October 1990. An inductive-radio link from two separate locations is used to provide precise positioning of the...

Here are a couple of photos to follow - which I'll post in separate replies - to give people some ideas of the sort of thing to go for. Peter Bolt communicating from Archies, Updweeb, in Daren Cilau to Stuart France at the Severn Beach, Priory Road, in Agen Allwedd, 27th October 1990. An...