It's good to see my son Daniel posting here for the first time. He first went underground aged 4 and now at 20 is a very keen and competent UBSS member, as well as being club secretary. Are there other multi-generational UKcaving.com families?

Good piece, Pete.

Congratulations on another hard-won and well deserved success! Could this enable the Kingsdale link to become a reality?

There are caves around 500m deep near the Kotor area of the coastal range. York University went to the Durmitor range several times and had one system that was if I recall well over 600m deep, there are some big resurgences in the Tara canyon and finally the Prokelitje range that straddles the...

Very impressive. I have to say, it does look like a cave... Of course Moose and Colin had a similar experience on the other side of the gorge.

Great account. What a pity so much effort has come to so little, but that's how it goes. I will remember my outings to this same objective with Franklin and others in 2020 with fondness. No caving, but many great conversations! And walking up and down the river was great - it carried a sense...

I think you mean je ne sais quoi. Je n'est ce pas means "I am not it".

What are the prospects for a connection between Cobweb etc and the Terikan river?

For years now it's been said that the number of cavers is diminishing. I remember the 1980s, when the coaches carrying university students on freshers' trips would clog up the centre of places such as Ingleton. I believe Rostam Namaghi has some data that back this up, suggesting there has been a...

Epic write-up, Badlad. Can't wait for the next instalment!

Why is there no hot shower?

It does. The online version has all the text and illustrations of the print version.

Badger, this article was written, illustrated and edited with a lot of care and attention to detail. I don't think it contains a single error. I'm pleased to see from Facebook that people close to Jason and the rest of the team are pleased with the results, and it will benefit future...

The story is now online and in print https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-terrifying-story-of-the-remotest-ever-cave-dive-nf0kv0fd9

Heads up: I’ve written a lengthy article for the Sunday Times magazine telling the story of the exploration of Pozo Azul, culminating in this year’s push led by Jason Mallinson. It will be published on the Sunday after next, 3 December. It’s beautifully illustrated and spreads across nine pages...

One solution for traverse lines if you like a short short tail for rebelays is to clip an extra snaplink krab to the end of your footloop safety cord. You can also use this to clip the footloop to the side of your harness when you're caving off ropes.

Aviation accounts for approximately 2.5% of global carbon dioxide emissions. A fact worth bearing in mind. By all means plant some trees in Derbyshire or Sussex. But if you're going caving in a tropical area such as Mulu, a rather larger issue makes itself plain: the destruction of the vast...

Thank you for this succinct and accurate post, Badlad. For reasons best known to himself, Stuart France continues to criticise the BCA's handling of the judicial review in which he was deeply involved, and which arose from his own exclusion from the Welsh government's Access Reform Advisory...

I meant in terms of the extraction of an injured casualty - W.F. Boyd, the caver extracted from the bottom of Sunset, had a fractured femur. Pretty serious!