Cave Women Rock! Whilst sat on the sofa in BPC?s headquarters we listened to the president tell us how historically the club, including her husband, had taken a vote on whether to allow female members to join. Yet 3 weeks prior on a mild October Saturday morning we were kitting up as an...

Not Gonna Lie, I Cried a Little Bit Now this is a story all about how My body fell straight to the ground If you can take a minute, just sit right there I?ll tell you how I fell in steam and was left in Alex?s care. So? I have developed somewhat of a track record for falling in caves. It?s...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Kingsdale Saturday: Briony, Josh, Natalie, Rosanna So our long awaited trip to Gapping Gill (GG) with MUSC was finally here. We had been building up since the start of freshers. Unfortunately it was raining lions and coyotes (cats and dogs seemed an understatement) as...

On the evening of 25th of November we crammed ourselves into a car full of SRT and caving kit, tents, Jacob?s port and we just about managed to fit 5 people in too! Now we just had to drive for 3 hours from Nottingham to Somerset, a journey which included a jittery Jacob hyped on his 7th cup of...

Mike Smith, Briony Dowes-Ward, Fae Sapsford, Benjamin Dolby, Oskar Wolthoorn, Alexander Ried Due to a an equally unexpected and laudable surge in new members inclined to crawl down wet, dark holes, the club decided to add a day trip to what was already quite a trip-heavy autumn. With gear...

Tis was a Saturday, 3rd of September. My second visit to Castleton in a week. I?d spent to previous two days in company of Just Liam of SUSS in Sheffield sampling the Steel City life ? climbing, Henderson?s Relish (a bottle of which I bought as a souvenir) and disorientating hills. The plan was...

Photo: Jacob emerging from Jingling Pot on a Eurospeleo trip. In August 2016, the Yorkshire Dales was host to the 5th European Speleological Congress, a week-long festival of British caving attended by 1300 delegates from 36 countries around the world. From NUCC, Jacob, Briony and I were in...

After a training weekend in February I learned SRT and was ready to try it out in cave. Six months later and after multiple failed attempts (including one where I was hung up for nearly an hour about 5 meters from the cave entrance, but as I could always see natural light I?m not counting it) I...