I have been asked to post this sad news on behalf of a non-caving Friend. Alan Kelly sadly passed away last week.  He ran a micro brewery on Anglesey and was involved with the Parys Underground Group.  He also caved around the rest of the UK.  Although I only had the pleasure of meeting Alan...

I'm currently digging a vertical shaft (in the corner of an existing back filled shaft) into an old lead mine, however, it keeps collapsing in and is getting quite dodgy being at the bottom of the hole, with big boulders falling on me.  The hole isn't really big enough to scaffold.  When I was...

I'm looking into buying an action cam for an upcoming foreign caving trip.  I've been looking at the Veho Muvi K2 which seems to outdo the GoPro on performance for a fraction of the cost.  There are plenty of comparison vids on Youtube which seem to favour the K2 but does anyone have any...

Hi Folks, Working on a dig at the moment where we can only spend a maximum of 1.5hrs physically digging as we are running out of air.  I have thought of running a small compressor at the surface with a serious length of hose down to the dig. Anyone come up with any better ideas? Thanks in...