Say you've got a calcite blockage to get through. Its maybe 1.5m thick (well, thats what the survey says), and blocking a rift perhaps 50cm wide by 1m high. How would you go about it? Ta MikeTA

Fortuanately, due to the time difference beween Mendip and the US, the Hunters will be open beforehand: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-preacher-warns-end-of-the-world-is-nigh-21-may-around-6pm-to-be-precise-2254139.html

See http://hidden-earth.org.uk/info/location.html ... ... click the multimap link and you get a school in the middle of Manchester ... click the geohack link then then multimap and you get Leek Is this a new connection?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/things_to_do/newsid_8839000/8839046.stm :clap2:  :o  :beer2:

The one with the handle, not the basic thingy. For sale because the new ergonomic catch is rubbish (see one of the equipment threads). LEFT handed. Cost me about ?20. Used once in Ireby and twice is Austria, by which time I decided its rubbish. Yours for ?10 plus postage.

I recently decided that maybe my 25 year old Jumar (the real thing, one of those yellow cast ascenders with the totally separate cam and release catches) was maybe a tad old and should be replaced, so I purchased a shiny new Petzl handled ascender (and a Croll to match). Off I went on...

I was emailed by someone trying to track down someone ... this goes back a bit, does anyone here know anything? Thanx. In September and October 1948 I, together with another 18 year old soldier who lived in one of the Houses in Wells Cathedral Close, undertook over several week-ends a survey of...