With Tav and Nick. It was a warm walk up to the cave entrance, underground it was much cooler. Dragged my tackle bag with 'capping' kit and drill to the dig face to deal with the rocks that were impeding progress. A couple of holes and the resulting ...
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A walker (f,40) was reported by a fellow walker to be unable to walk further, having nearly completed the 3 Peaks Challenge. A CRO vehicle with 2 team members went to the location given at Sulber Nick crossroads, and found the walker to be tired and with extremely painful knees. As the casualty was being put in the vehicle, a second walker (m,48) was found nearby, who was similarly incapacitated. As… ...
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When mineral-rich water drips from a cave's ceiling over centuries and millennia, it forms rocky cones that hold clues to the Earth's past climate. Now, researchers in Australia and the UK have found that these structures can also help trace past wildf ...
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The end of Gibbon CaveAnother day, another tour, this time the Tu Lan four day, making ten days in a row. Now I have two days off before my next Hang Son Doong tour.Cave Pearls in Gibbon CaveThe weather has turned really hot here now, not a cloud in th ...
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Hang Tien ExitOn our last trip to Hang Tien we spotted a new passage, the main aim of our next visit was to explore this passage and to install a suitable belay for the ladder that was being installed at the same time.Ladder adjustmentsWhile our porter ...
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The following morning, a small group of CRO members descended into the open area of Hull Pot and engaged in a one-hour ‘rodeo’ with a large and very agile lamb. Having almost been fooled by a newly discovered CRO talent – Sean’s mother sheep impressions – it then resorted to ledge-jumping, rock-climbing, ‘turning on a sixpence’ and retreating into cave entrances, before being wrestled into a postal sorting bag. It… ...
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Yorkshire Ambulance Service requested assistance following a road traffic collision, saying that the patient was over a wall and that access was poor. On arrival, it was found that a car and occupants had cleared the wall into the edge of Cleatop Wood. While Police officers kept the traffic moving, CRO members assisted the paramedics in lifting the two patients – immobilised in case of back injuries – from the… ...
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A sheep was reported to have fallen into Hull Pot. However, as the duty controller was recruiting a small team to rescue it, there was another call. There is plenty of herbiage in Hull Pot, so the sheep rescue was postponed until the following morning ...
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With Tav. After fiddling with my light at the cave entrance I ventured underground to join Tav, who had gone ahead to start digging. It was soon decided that it would be better if the large rock to the left side was removed. So Tav and I swapped pla ...
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A walker (f,25) slipped on a rock or step, at about 20.30, sustaining a suspected fracture of the right ankle, which she had injured once before. Her companion had no phone and tried running both down and back up the path looking for assistance for an hour, before finding a house with a phone. After giving pain relief and splinting the leg, CRO members carried the patient (By now it… ...
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A walker (f,50) stepped down about 30 cm and her knee gave way under her, so that she could not continue the walk. CRO members immobilised the leg before carrying the patient to an air ambulance, for transfer to hospital. Volunteer hours 8 ...
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A caver (f,19) fell after exiting the cave, landing on a rock and injuring her coccyx. She was given pain relief, packaged and stretchered to a CRO vehicle, then taken to a road ambulance for transport to hospital. Volunteer hours 21 ...
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Being on the Committee I fully appreciate the organisation that goes in to even the smallest of events and so when it was proposed that we open up the Ruiton Mill for an open day I knew we were taking on something of a task.Brendan set the bar high ear ...
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Environmental records obtained from archaeological sites in South Africa's southern Cape suggest climate may not have been directly linked to cultural and technological innovations of Middle Stone Age humans in southern Africa after all. ...
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Doline One Sunbeams and cloudIt started as we drove up to the drop off point, someone had left a metre and a half long branch on the road, then it moved! Turned out to be a cobra, easily the biggest snake I've seen in Vietnam and I was glad we were sti ...
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A climber (m 61) was being lowered from the top of a climb by his belayer when a very large piece of rock became detached from the crag above him. The rock hit his head, caused a suspected fracture of his shoulder and abrasions to his back. He was treated at the foot of the crag by CRO members before being secured in to a stretcher and winched up into… ...
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Scientists have devised a way to test carbon capture and storage, by sampling water at storage sites for an altered form of oxygen. In the first experiment of its kind, researchers studied the different forms of oxygen in waters sampled from rocks deep ...
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A Three Peaks walker (f,50) slipped on wet limestone, injuring a knee, so that she could not continue. CRO responded, but thanks to the lack of mobile signal, her exact position could not be confirmed. However, a passing walker was able to assist with that and the ‘casualty’ was stretchered to a CRO vehicle and driven to a roadside RV with a road ambulance, near Selside. Volunteer hours: t.b.c ...
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