Other Sites and Blogs – Darkness Below

We can’t hope to bring you every story, but there are plenty of caving and mining blogs out there you can browse at your leisure – so have a read through some of the best! If you know of a blog you’d like us to add to this page please let us know.

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INCIDENT 69/2025. AUGUST 16th SAT. 1830hrs SIMON FELL BREAST, INGLEBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

The team were called by North Yorkshire Police to assist with a Three Peaks walker (m,27) who had sustained a left ankle injury whilst descending Ingleborough and unable to walk. A small team were able to drive close to the incident in CRO 4 (the teams ...
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16th August

Vince, Tav, Jon, Jake, and Brockers Spent a peaceful time at the cave packing bags while waiting for the rest of the team to arrive. Underground in the AUD area, Tav digging, I was clearing away the filled bags to Jon who hauled them up the slope and carried them across the chamber to the … Continue reading ...
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INCIDENT 68/2025. AUGUST 16th SAT. 09:00hrs FLUTED HOLES,NEWBY MOSS, NORTH YORKSHIRE

Following a report of a sheep down a fluted shaft on Newby Moss, a small team were mobilised. to recover the stricken animal. They accessed the site in CRO 1 and CRO 4. One team member descended the shaft and was able to capture the sheep and encourag ...
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INCIDENT 67/2025. AUGUST 20th THU. 15:44hrs CONISTON HALL HOTEL, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

The team were requested by North Yorkshire Police to assist with the search for a missing person (m, 87) who had not been seen for over 24hrs. The team was tasked with searching the wooded areas of the hotel grounds where the police helicopter and dron ...
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INCIDENT 67/2025. AUGUST 20th THU. 15:44hrs CONISTON HALL HOTEL, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

9th August

Vince, Jake, Jon, Nick, Tav Arrived at the farm early enough but ended up chatting to the farmer for quite a while. Eventually I got changed and set off across the fields as Jake rode his motorcycle into the yard. At the cave started to pack the dry bags ready for refilling later. Underground at … Continue reading ...
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9th August

Spice Essence, Kirkby Lonsdale

13th July 2025Chloe Francis and Stuart BennettSouth Wales Caving Club has a long standing tradition of Going For A Curry. Previous iterations of committees have aimed to finish a Saturday night meeting before 9pm, to allow enough time to race to Tiffi ...
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Spice Essence, Kirkby Lonsdale

ALERT ONLY. AUGUST 9th SAT. 15:49hrs GAPING GILL, CLAPHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 9 OF 2025.

The team were called by North Yorkshire Police to a report of an overdue caver in the Gaping Gill system. Whilst the Duty Controller was making initial enquiries the reporting person got back in touch to confirm that the caver was now safely back on th ...
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INCIDENT 66/2025. AUGUST 8th, FRI. 11.34hrs KIRKBY FELL, nr MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

The team were called by North Yorkshire Police to a report of a walker (m) who was found having a medical episode by a passing cyclist on the path across Kirkby Fell. Team members were able to drive CROs 2 and 3 along a track to within a few hundred me ...
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Victoria Aven and Echo Chamber

Today's trip was originally planned to the White River Series in Peak Cavern, however due to an event taking place in the showcave we opted for a shorter trip to ensure we exited on time. Keen to do an SRT trip, I suggested Victoria Aven to Echo Chambe ...
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INCIDENT 65/2025. AUGUST 6th, WED. 11.57hrs INGLEBOROUGH, AT THE BASE OF THE SWINE TAIL, INGLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE.

A walker (m, ) slipped at the beginning of the ascent up the Swine Tail, sustaining a deformed leg fracture. CRO 4 (Honda Pioneer) was driven up onto Little Ingleborough carrying three team members. They continued on foot to the casualty site above the ...
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INCIDENT 64/2025. AUGUST 4th, MON. 15.33hrs RIVER GRETA from INGLETON to BURTON in LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE and continued on 5th, TUE. from INGLETON to GRETA BRIDGE (TUNSTALL, LANCASHIRE).

North Yorkshire Police (NYP) received a report of a body, floating down the River Greta at Ingleton Bottoms. NYP and North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (NYFRS) responded, then called CRO to join the search. A combined effort between CRO’s ...
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2nd August

Vince, Tav, Jake, Nick, Brockers Arrived at cave and while waiting for the others to turn up added a few rocks to the spoil heap extension wall and packed the bags into bundles, mostly in ‘tens.’ Slipped underground with the packs of bags and had a peek at last session’s progress in CoW, it wasn’t … Continue reading ...
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2nd August

ALERT ONLY. AUGUST 3rd SUN. 10.08hrs UN-NAMED(?) POT Nr MARBLE STEPS, THORNTON IN LONSDALE, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 8 OF 2025.

A caver reported that a sheep was stranded about 20m down a shaft into an un-named (?) pot-hole near Marble Steps Pot. He offered to attempt to rescue it and report back. Meanwhile, team members were put on stand-by and one was tasked with checking the ...
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ALERT ONLY. AUGUST 2nd SAT. 18.41hrs OUTCROP BELOW NEW CLOSE KNOTTS, GORDALE SCAR, MALHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ALERT No 7 OF 2025

A ‘lamb’ was reported to be in distress on one of the limestone scars to the SW of Gordale Scar. The duty controller asked a colleague to assess the site, then alerted team members for attendance the following morning. In the meantime a nei ...
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