As a CPC member involved with the BIrks Fell Cave discoveries, I and other members dug in these sinkholes back in 1968, and also in the stream bed of the beck near the shooting hut. This water is that which falls down the Shooting Box Aven.

This is really sad news. He was one of the greats, an excellent doctor with a wonderful sense of humour that at times during the New Guinea expedition of 1975 often seemed like it was all there was holding the team together when things got rough or morale flagged. I cannot find sufficient words...

Hi, Does anyone have contact email for David St Pierre?