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"...I thrashed around to try to free myself. This was a serious mistake because my carbide light fell off my helmet and down into the rift. I could see it below me in a slot only a few inches wide; out of reach of my present position. Then the flame went out. I told myself not to panic, lie still and think things through. A logical analysis of my plight was required. I itemised the good and bad points of my situation and came up with something along these lines.
BAD POINTS:
1. I am badly stuck.
2. It is totally dark.
3. I am off route.
4. I am on my own.
5. I'm feeling exhausted.
6. Come to think of it, since stopping moving, I 'm feeling rather cold.
7. Six bad points is enough for now... let's move on to the good points.
GOOD POINTS:
1. Tony will call out the rescue team if I do not turn up at his place after another 24 hours or so.
2. I can move upwards and downwards for as much as three inches.
3. That seems to be about it for the good points."...
Dave Yeandle, `Solo through Dowber Gill'.
"...`Would you mind shining your light over here please? When you kicked me in the face you knocked off my glasses as well as my helmet'. His restraint was remarkable." J.K. Pitts: August 1950
"...it's got everything you love about Mendip and occasionally bits where you can stand up..."
Geoff Ballard's atttempt to interest Sparrow, Rowland, Torbett & Binding into visiting Ogof Carno, S. Wales.
"...the owner hurried to Priddy and, to his amazement, found his dog. The poor creature's paws were raw and the skin was almost flayed from its body. There can be no doubt that the animal had found its way through underground pasages from one side of the range of hills to the other".
Adventures Underground, T.C. Bridges, 1937.
"...the earthy smell of moist limestone serves to emphasize the cold indifference of the cave towards its visitors".
- David Heap (Potholing) - possibly where the League of Gentlemen got some of the schpiel for their "Cave Guide" in Stump Cross Cavern.
"...his lamp had gone out and his matches were too wet to be of any use - none of which was known to those at the top of the pitch who thought he had made a safe landing and had gone off to explore".
- Peter Jackson (History of Mendip Caving)
"...Professor J.B.S. Haldane wrote in the 1940s that if there was a Bolshevik revolutionary spirit to be found in the UK it was to be found in the ranks of the Cave Diving Group. The CDG's response to this was to demote Haldane to non-diving status with the excuse that his oxygen tolerance was questionable".
Cave Diving: The CDG Manual. Various authors; 1990.
BAD POINTS:
1. I am badly stuck.
2. It is totally dark.
3. I am off route.
4. I am on my own.
5. I'm feeling exhausted.
6. Come to think of it, since stopping moving, I 'm feeling rather cold.
7. Six bad points is enough for now... let's move on to the good points.
GOOD POINTS:
1. Tony will call out the rescue team if I do not turn up at his place after another 24 hours or so.
2. I can move upwards and downwards for as much as three inches.
3. That seems to be about it for the good points."...
Dave Yeandle, `Solo through Dowber Gill'.
"...`Would you mind shining your light over here please? When you kicked me in the face you knocked off my glasses as well as my helmet'. His restraint was remarkable." J.K. Pitts: August 1950
"...it's got everything you love about Mendip and occasionally bits where you can stand up..."
Geoff Ballard's atttempt to interest Sparrow, Rowland, Torbett & Binding into visiting Ogof Carno, S. Wales.
"...the owner hurried to Priddy and, to his amazement, found his dog. The poor creature's paws were raw and the skin was almost flayed from its body. There can be no doubt that the animal had found its way through underground pasages from one side of the range of hills to the other".
Adventures Underground, T.C. Bridges, 1937.
"...the earthy smell of moist limestone serves to emphasize the cold indifference of the cave towards its visitors".
- David Heap (Potholing) - possibly where the League of Gentlemen got some of the schpiel for their "Cave Guide" in Stump Cross Cavern.
"...his lamp had gone out and his matches were too wet to be of any use - none of which was known to those at the top of the pitch who thought he had made a safe landing and had gone off to explore".
- Peter Jackson (History of Mendip Caving)
"...Professor J.B.S. Haldane wrote in the 1940s that if there was a Bolshevik revolutionary spirit to be found in the UK it was to be found in the ranks of the Cave Diving Group. The CDG's response to this was to demote Haldane to non-diving status with the excuse that his oxygen tolerance was questionable".
Cave Diving: The CDG Manual. Various authors; 1990.
