Caving incidents may be less than 10% of CRO callouts BUT Saturdays cave rescue took more 'volunteer hours' than the last 6 mountain rescues combined .
That was ' Kendal's dark secret ' an entry at the film festival 24hr film making competition many years ago. It ends with cavers emerging from a cupboard behind a bar (and it's not true)
The key difference is that caving kit is usually your own so you know it's history etc. The exception is club kit but it's still being used by people who generally want to keep it in reasonable condition.
Work kit suffers from the 'someone else's problem/can't be bothered' syndrome. Handing...