The Met office have finally followed through on their threat to Web 2.0 their Mountain-Safety website (boo hiss), so it doesn't work over WAP or with 'dumb' phones: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/mountain-forecast/#?tab=mountainHome However, they've also launched a load of specific...

Thanks to everyone who came to our talk at Hidden Earth on our summer expedition to Slovenia. Our slides are online for those who couldn't make it, with links to the YouTube videos we didn't show due to lack of time...

Dear All, Imperial College are back from their very recent Sardinia trip. This may be be useful for other's planning a trip there. They visited Su Bentu, camped in Su Palu and visited ?Routa ?e S?Edera?. https://union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/sardinia/sardinia14_printer.pdf (12MB PDF)

During the summer 2013 Expedition to Tolminski Migovec, Slovenia, Imperial College CC very kindly had the loan of a 'Cave Link' radio system from the manufacturers. This is a text only system, and was found to be extremely useful for exploration logistics...

Found a Olympus Mu Tough in the start of the resurgence of PYO. I suspect it had been swept through the cave during a flood pulse, water inside the camera so it's clearly dead but the SD card still works. The SD Card reads OK - photos show a group of young (guess late primary school age)...

Does anyone know the longest (from an entrance) point one can reach in the UK / in the world? There's a cave in America, Fort Stanton Cave ( Snowy River Passage), with a point over 12 miles (19.3km) from the entrance: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100434312839264796873/posts/BksKzMmcPP2 I've done...

Many fantastic photos & more updates on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CaveDive

This new product just announced by Sony looks really potentially quite useful for caving / diving: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/29/sony-action-cam-hands-on/ Unlike the GoPro it seems to have a much larger aperture lens (thus more light gathering ability), and a large high-sensitivity sensor...

I have the great pleasure of announcing that the JSPDT (Caving Section of the Tolmin Alpine Club) and ICCC (Imperial College Caving Club) have successfully connected System Migovec and System Vrtnarija during the Sledi Vetra 2012 expedition. The combined system is now 24.9 km long and 975 m...

Was down Gingling on Saturday - the climb in the slot below stalactite chamber was extremely loose, some fairly large chunks coming down as the cavers in front climbed up (with great care). Rather worryingly, it looks as if the much larger boulders are falling towards the bedrock of the wall...

We're dusting off our plans to build some dataloggers for installation over a year in an alpine cave. It's easy enough to buy sensors to do temperature, pressure and humidity (though it might saturate), but one thing we've considered trying to do is estimate the flow rate of the cave by...

Stop found, on its attachment carabiner, in the streamway midway along the traverse on the way to the sump (fallen down into the stream, near the old ladder route). The wheels are a bit pitted, so it's possibly been there a while, but otherwise seems serviceable. Describe the krab & the stop...

http://www.space.com/13862-mars-rover-opportunity-ancient-water-evidence.html http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-377&rn=news.xml&rst=3220#1

I split this off from the Bisun review, as I didn't want to hijack the thread, interested in any comments! http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=12767.0 Only one year off! For a photo lamp, I'd imagine you could run into CRI problems quite quickly. It's certainly a headache to have...

Do any cavers out there have any experience with the (relatively) new Adventure Medical Kits Emergency Bivvy Bag? They seem quite interesting, sort of halfway between a 'good old' polythene survival bag (Caving Supplies quote 90g, 182x83cm, ?4) and the slightly OTT Lifesystems Blizzard bags...