The Tratman Award for 2025 goes to …
The Tratman Award is presented annually in memory of UBSS member Professor E.K. ‘Trat’ Tratman and goes to the best caving-related, paper-based publication. Chris Howes, ...
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Newsflash: Controlled release of water affecting Porth yr Ogof on 22nd October 2026
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water will be carrying out a controlled release of water from the Ystradfellte Reservoir on Thursday, 22nd October that will affect Porth ...
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Book Review: The Body in the Dales
Yorkshire copper DCI Jim Oldroyd gets caught up in the mystery of a body found down a well-known cave. There’s certainly no shortage of suspects ...
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BCRA Cave Archaeology Group Field Trip – Poole’s Cavern 9th/10th May 2026
Join the BCRA Cave Archaeology Group at the British Cave Science Centre at Poole’s Cavern, Buxton on the 9th/10th May 2026 for a programme of ...
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Book Review: A Rock and a Hard Place
Scottish caves have turned up again in crime fiction ... JD Kirk (a pen-name for writer Barry Hutchison) has written 21 novels featuring DCI Jack ...
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The Giles Barker award for 2025 goes to …
The Giles Barker Award is presented to any person connected with any aspect of cave photography in recognition of excellence or contributions to the field; ...
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The Tratman Award for 2024 goes to …
The Tratman Award is presented annually to the best caving-related, paper-based publication in memory of UBSS member Professor E.K. ‘Trat’ Tratman. Chris Howes, on behalf ...
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Cave and Karst Science Vol 51 No 2: Hypogene karst in Yorkshire and ancient burial on Mendip
The latest edition of Cave and Karst Science is now with us. It contains six papers and a photo spread. Max Moseley discusses Charles Chilton ...
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BCRA Cave Science Symposium, AGM and Field Trips
Symposium - Saturday 11th October 202 Field trips - Sunday 12th October 2025 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol Register here at the eventbrite ...
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More Press coverage A publicised visit by two Members of Parliament to Gaping Ghyll was reported here a few days ago. The press release was ...
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Mendip clubs are highly competitive but also very sociable - a winning combination for having a great time! As an example of this, on the ...
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The current Secretary of the British Caving Association, Damian Weare, will not be seeking re-election at this year's AGM in June, due to other commitments ...
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One of the activities of the British Caving Library is cataloguing collections of donated caving material from once active cavers, mainly documents in the form ...
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Report by David Rose TWO Conservative MPs and a leading QC have paid a visit to Britain’s highest waterfall – the mighty cascade that tumbles ...
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Can everyone please stay clear of Talybont shaft to deep adit, please, until further notice. Heavy rain plus ongoing work has caused some movement at ...
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A good source for news on things that matter to mine explorers and historians is the NAMHO newsletter. The latest issue, for December 2015, has ...
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Cavers know all about self-help. We all have to be very self-reliant in all that we do underground. And this is reflected in the fact ...
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At midday on 18th December 2015, the last shift of miners was brought to surface at Kellingley Colliery in Yorkshire. The papers and television channels ...
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We've all heard of Match.com and Plenty of Fish, but Teri Stephens and James Sherrell have created a Facebook Group offering single cavers the opportunity to ...
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Scheduled Ancient Monument consent has been granted for underground works in Lefel Fawr which involves stabilisation of a sagging timber above the skipway and improvement ...
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The landowners who own access to the UK's second longest cave, Ogof Draenan, have made it clear that they won't be bullied by threats of legal ...
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In one of the first posts on Darkness Below UK we briefly highlighted the work of US cartoonist John Tudek. At the time we were not sure ...
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We reported on 24 November 2015 about the legal action threatened by cavers Stuart France and Nigel Rogers against Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and the ...
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The UWFRA team attended an incident near Hetton after a female walker sustained a suspected broken ankle. Eighteen team members attended the incident and stretchered the ...
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As Storm Desmond wreaks havoc throughout Cumbria and large parts of Lancashire and North Yorkshire, photographs and video recordings of flooding in the Yorkshire Dales, ...
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The Cave Rescue Organisation responded to a call from North West Ambulance Service unable to reach Dent to attend to a wheelchair user, upstairs and needing hospital ...
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DC Nick Belsey is driven down into the miles of abandoned tunnels under the streets of London in search for a missing woman. As it ...
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