Other Sites and Blogs

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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Ogof Craig A Ffynnon filming

Team: Antonia Freem, Duncan Hornby, Ollie Jone, Sally Richards, Alan Walsh & Tarquin Wilton-JonesTrip date: 24/2/18“Team Freem” had been wanting to film the furthest parts of Ogof Craig A Ffynnon for some time and last weekend had been a trip in th ...
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Caver Keith on the Radio (and TV)

I'm Nearly Famous 3Following on from the Birmingham Mail article and my not so modest success on social media I was invited to appear on the Danny Kelly Show (which was being hosted by Rachel New) on BBC WM 95.6FM to talk about my caving adventure ...
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24th February 2018

I was away this weekend attending a workshop 'Integrated Microscopy Approaches in Archaeobotany' at the University of Reading. And, very good it was too. However, there was an attendance at Hallowe'en Rift. Nick penned the following summary: " A fou ...
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Caver Keith Videos on Social Media

I'm Nearly famous 2Back in October I received an email from an intern working for Extreme on Facebook asking if he could use clips from Caving Claustrophobia Kill or Cure.ExtremeI said yes and a shorter edit was uploaded to the Extreme Facebook page on ...
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Daring cavers delve into UK’s tightest, deepest and darkest spaces – Could you handle it?

I'm nearly famousOn 30th January I got an email from Newsflare who thought they might be able to sell one of my videos - Caver Stuck in The Lobster Pot, Sidcot Swallet. It sold twice, to Right This Minute and MSM. The videos did the rounds of soci ...
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Wookey Hole, Mendip

22nd February 2018: with Jake, Jonathon, Brockers, Dunc and Mike M. Mike M and myself dropped further down the route to Sump 23.75 to have a quick look at another potential lead, where a feint air current could be felt. This will be left on the bac ...
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20th February 2018

With Brockers. Straight-up to the current focus of attention to continue the expansion of the fissure; 4no. holes, 550mm x 12mm, were drilled and filled. While I was doing that, Brockers replaced another of the skips and fettled the wire. ...
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17th February 2018

With Jake, Jon and Tav. A small team for a Saturday again, no bother, still plenty to keep us occupied. On arrival at the farm, it appears that the 'Bambi-Man' is not pleased with us and had left us a little note: Some people are so tetchy ...
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Incident 6/2018 – Feb. 17th Sat. 15.00 Trow Gill, Clapham, North Yorkshire – Mountain Rescue

Having stepped off the path while walking down through Trow Gill, a walker (f, 46) slipped on wet grass, sustaining a suspected lower leg fracture. After splinting the leg, CRO members carried her to a team vehicle for the drive down to Clapham and tra ...
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Wookey Hole, Mendip

15th February 2018: with Jake, Jonathon, Tav, Roz, Duncan and Mike M. Good to have a project in mind and make a return to the quest in Wookey 20. Duncan and Max Fisher, on a diving trip into 24, have followed a dry rift passage for c.10m to a const ...
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13th February 2018

With Jake. Always good to have some company and a helping hand with the kit. At the current end of Another Emotional Journey, another 4no. holes, 550mm x 12mm, were drilled and filled, continuing the expansion of the narrow fissure. ...
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Bats as barometer of climate change

Bats spend every night hard at work for local farmers, consuming over half of their own weight in insects, many of which are harmful agricultural pests, such as the noctuid moths, corn earworm and fall armyworm. And now they are arriving earlier in the ...
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10th February 2018

With Jake, Jonathon and Tav. A smaller team assembled at the Hunter's on another wet Saturday morning, ready to go digging. At Hallowe'en Rift, while I opened the gate, the others packed bags prior to going underground. ...
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8th February 2018

With Jonathon, Mike M, Brockers, Duncan and Tav. At the end of Another Emotional Journey, I cleared the debris that resulted from Tuesday evenings effort, Jon shifting the rocks and bags filled with gravel along the rift to load the skip to Mike, on ...
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Incident 5/2018 – Feb. 5th Mon. 15.49 Ingleborough, North Yorkshire – Mountain Rescue

On the summit of Ingleborough, a paraglider fell about 3 metres when his parachute stalled whilst he was taking off. He suffered a suspected fracture to an ankle. Remarkably, and with the generous help of passing walkers, the injured person had the ten ...
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Incident 4/2018 – Feb. 4th Sun. 16.04 Attermire Scar, Settle, North Yorkshire – Mountain Rescue

A walker (f 60) fell and injured her shoulder on a footpath between Stockdale farm and Attermire Cave. Team members cared for and assisted the injured person down to the nearest road for transport to hospital. Volunteer hours: 30 ...
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New research reveals plant wonderland inside China’s caves

Over five years (2009-2014) researchers have delved into the depths of some of China's most unexplored and unknown caves in the largest ever study on cave floras. Surveying over 60 caves in the Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan regions, they were able to ass ...
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6th February 2018

Survey drawn by Robin Taviner
With Roz. Drove over the hill in quite a flurry of snow. Underground, at the end of Another Emotional Journey, continued with the expansion of the rift, 4no. holes, 550mm x 12mm, all nicely charged and tamped, rolled out the wire and the evening, br ...
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