5th
June 2018: with Brockers and Duncan.
Rumours of a significant
blockage of the 60m crawl, the result of induced rapid speleogenesis (IRS),
turned out to be unfounded. The obstructing flake, that bars further progress
along the passage, had co…
A walker was reported to have broken an ankle, about half-way up the steps to the top of Malham Cove. Two YAS ambulance technicians were on scene when CRO members arrived. The patient was given pain-relief and had his injured leg splinted, before being…
Two cavers were reported to be more than five hours overdue from a through trip between Lost John’s Hole and Notts 2, which they had estimated would take four hours (20.00 Sunday to 00.00 Monday). CRO members began searching in the two pots refer…
I was away on the Gower this weekend
exploring coastal caves and digging Harry Thomas’s Cave with John Cooper. Alex
sent the following summary of Saturday’s activity in Hallowe’en Rift. I suspect
the team comprised Alex, Jake, Jonathon, Nick and Broc…
A visitor (m, described as ‘big and heavy’) fell on the stepped path, landing on an unrelated visitor (f, 45). Although he walked away, she sustained a suspected fractured clavicle and grazes to her head. After immobilising the injury and …
North Yorkshire Police asked for CRO’s assistance by searching Yordas Cave and immediate area for a person (m, 50) reported to be missing from home and ‘at risk’. No-one was found, nor was there any evidence that he had been there. Vo…
31st
May 2018: with Brockers, Alex, Mike, Nick, Jake and Duncan.
Called in at the farm to
collect the mattock retrieved from Hallowe’en last Saturday before meeting the
rest of the team in the Wookey Hole car park.
Usual warm trip through
Cha…
A recent connection has been dug in Wookey Hole Caves to link Charon’s Chamber with the adjacent Troup’s Rift. Charon’s Chamber is a high rift across the River Axe in Chamber One, The Witch’s Kitchen, and was first entered by the MNRC in 1934. A link between the two was originally predicted by Barrington and…
A woman, walking up the steps next to Pecca Falls became unwell, and lost consciousness. The team were tasked by Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) to assist crews in extricating the casualty.
Team: Derek Cousins, Duncan Hornby, George Linnane, Lesley Markie, Ariana Preston, Lee Smith, Richard Sore, Claire Vivian, Neil Weymouth.Dates: 18th -20th May 2018This club meet saw new and old club members travelling from far and wide to descend upon …
A male walker began to suffer chest pain and dizziness whilst ascending Little Ingleborough, beyond Gaping Gill. The team were called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service, and a vehicle was immediately dispatched from our base in Clapham, fortunately staffed…
New research shows that the climate of the interior of southern Africa almost two million years ago was much wetter than the modern environment. This first extensive paleoenvironmental sequence for the interior of southern Africa suggests that human an…
A female walker fell approximately 20 feet down stone steps near Pecca Falls, losing consciousness for a short while. The team were tasked by Yorkshire Ambulance Service to assist, and located the casualty not far from our rendezvous point. YAS paramed…
With Nick, Jonathon, Alex and a late, but
welcome, appearance by Tom Chapman.
It was my turn to dig this session, Nick was
aiding the clearing of filled bags, assorted rocks and modifying the skip-run.
Jonathon was on the slope and loading th…
24th
May 2018: with Jake, Jonathon, Alex, Duncan, Nick and Mike.
Nick, after a longish
stint working away, was keen to get back to digging, so we let him, Mike
clearing away the filled buckets to Jake, who was loading the skip. I was at
the firs…
Subterranea Britannica group enters the Kőbánya cellar system, 35 kilometres of underground quarry. Photo: Peter Burgess I was once an active member of Subterranea Britannica, usually abbreviated to “Sub Brit”. Its quirky interest in man-made and man-used subterranean space appealed to me, and my own interests in old mine and quarry workings fitted in well….
Having dealt with incidents 25 and 26, whilst team members were sorting equipment in the visitor centre car park, the duty controller was approached by 2 walkers seeking advice. A friend had slipped and injured their ankle whilst walking on the cove to…
Whilst dealing with incident 25, the team were asked to assist a girl in a school party who had slipped on the limestone pavement, injuring her right ankle. A team casualty carer assessed the injury and strapped it up, before transporting the student a…
The Team were called by North Yorkshire Police to a walker (f) who had slipped and injured her ankle on the steps on the left side of Malham Cove. On arrival, team casualty carers splinted the injury and placed her in a stretcher, before sledging her d…
21st May 2018 and Caver Keith is celebrating clocking up 4,000,000 caving video views on YouTube, as awell as 20,000 likes 👍, 2,000 dislikes 👎, 13,000 shares and 3,000 subscribers.A huge thanks to all my viewers and an enormous thanks to Brendan, Jess,…
Whilst the CRO Ingleborough Challenge was underway, a collision between a mountain biker and a CRO challenge competitor on a public bridleway was reported to our Control by a check point. We treated the runner for a head injury at the check point. A li…
With Alex, Brockers and Jonathon. Alex digging, Brockers clearing away and doing
some tidying-up, I was on the slope and loaded the skip to Jon, on the haul and
shuttle. The bags, and very occasional rocks, were stacked at the bottom of the
entrance…
A school student (f, 13) slipped and sustained an apparently serious lower leg injury on the path from the Rakes road to Malham Cove. Having been given pain relief by the YAS paramedic, she was carried to a waiting road ambulance for transport to hosp…
A lamb was reported to be stranded on a ledge, 8m down into the open pot-hole. A small team rescued the lamb and re-united it with its mother. Volunteer hours: 6
15th
May 2018: with Jake, Tav and Duncan.
We did what we set-out to
do. The loose rocks, plus a few others, were removed from the top of the dig, we
also cleared a quantity of fine sediment as well. This should enable us to angle
the slope down,…
A walker (f,67) sustained severe bruising to her shins when falling as she walked. After being assessed by a team member attending the Gaping Gill Winch meet, a team vehicle was requested to transport the woman off the hill, and back to Clapham. Volunt…
With Jake, Tav, Brockers, Alex and Jonathon.
Jonathon digging with assistance from Alex,
who was clearing the filled bags and occasional rocks to Brockers, on the
slope. The spoil, loaded into the skip and I hauled and shuttled the bags and
r…
A passer-by reported that a lamb was stranded on a ledge on Shout Scar, Kingsdale. The duty controller went to investigate, but couldn’t quite reach the lamb. While two other members were en route to assist,the duty controller found that if he c…
Two 13-year old students (f) were reported missing from a school group between Gaping Gill and Ingleborough Cave. However, just as the duty controller was telephoning North Yorkshire Police’s Force Control Room for more information, they were rep…
British Cave Research Association 29th Cave Science Symposium Saturday 13th October, 2018, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol FIRST CIRCULAR & CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The British Cave Research Association is pleased to announce details of the 29th Annual Cave Science Symposium. The Symposium will be hosted by Dr. David Richards of the School of…
With Brockers, Jonathon, Alex and Duncan.
As our guest of honour, Duncy got to go
upfront and dig, assisted by Jon, Alex went to the slope, Brockers on the haul
and shuttle and I was on the surface again.
Duncan supplied some insect r…
3rd
May 2018 : with Jonathon, Alex, Tav, Brockers, Mike and Ray Deasy.
Another fine assemblage of
willing diggers gathered, destined for the Sand Dig.
Alex digging, aided by Brockers,
I was loading the skip, Ray on the slope, leaving Tav, Jona…
1st
May 2018: with Jake, Tav, Jonathon, Duncan and Mike.
A bigger turn-out than expected
for this digging session.
At the Sand Dig, Mike digging,
Tav shifting the filled buckets back up to Jonathon, who was loading the skip and,
in between ti…
The caves in Reigate, Surrey, are in reality sand-cut cellars and sand-mines. The caves that were excavated in Tunnel Road in the nineteenth century were, in part, used as a large beer cellar by the local Reigate brewer, Mellersh and Neale, until the early twentieth century. Local publicans Blackiston and Son also had a cellar…
With Jake, Nick, Jonathon and Alex.
After missing a digging session last weekend,
due to a variety of reasons, the team re-assembled to return to the fray.
Jake upfront digging aided by Nick, Jonathon
was on the slope clearing away th…
26th April 2018: Brockers, Nick, Jake, Jonathon,
Roz, Duncan, Mike and Alex.
A big team assembled this
evening, keen to get the Sand Dig re-started, it might have been bigger had others
been able to attend. Roz and I had arrived a little late, t…
You can now view our latest Annual Report on line here. Rescue 2018 gives details of our fundraising efforts, achievements and accounts as well as incidents attended throughout 2017. However, it’s a much better read ‘in the flesh’, so…
Members of a practice expedition group (3 m, 1 f; 16-18) reported themselves ‘lost at the summit of Ingleborough Hill’. Use of SARloc showed them to be on the path across Simon Fell Breast, which leads to Horton in Ribblesdale. They were pe…
. . . . . the ewe was waiting patiently on its ledge. So, after a quick snack (for some of us), it was off to Ingleton. The ewe was seen to be about six metres up from the quarry floor, but there was neither easy access up to it nor space to wrestle it…
A walker (f, 42) slipped on wet rocks at the beck edge, between the two waterfalls in Gordale Scar, sustaining a painful shoulder injury. Having been given pain relief and with her shoulder immobilised, the patient was able to walk up to the top of the…
An in-lamb ewe was reported to be stranded on a ledge at Ingleton’s former limestone quarry. A text trawl of team members showed insufficient volunteers for the afternoon, so the rescue was planned for that evening. However . . . . .
19th
April 2018: with Nick, Duncan, Brockers, Jonathon,
Mike, Claire Cohen and Ray Deasy.
A good assembled for this
evening’s foray. As there were plenty of people to carry-on with the dig down
the rift, I decided to go along and check the curre…
Descent 261 should have reached subscribers and shops by now! If you’re not a subscriber, we hope this short round up will whet your appetite and send you over to Wildplaces Publishing to get your copy, or if you’re lucky enough to have a caving shop anywhere near you, call in and get a copy…
The April 2018 issue of Caves and Karst Science is now available. Volume 45, Number 1 carries six main articles, starting with an appreciation of Dr Trevor R Shaw, speleo-historian extraordinaire, to celebrate his 90th birthday. There are contributions from many of his friends, including those from the Karst Research Institute in Postojna, Slovenia, with…
A walker (f, 82) was reported to have fainted near Pecca Falls on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. CRO members arrived, to find YAS paramedics already on scene. The patient, who was fully conscious, was put into a casualty bag on a lightweight stretcher…
A walker (m, 87) was reported to have collapsed ‘half-way up Whernside’. The first CRO members to arrive found him just above the wall at 525m. An assessment by team casualty carers suggested that he had recovered well, so he was stretche…
An anxious relative reported a group of 10 Three Peaks walkers overdue. As it was a large group, with a guide, the duty controller advised that they be given more time and checked, from time to time, whether they had returned. They returned safely, h…
With Jake, Jonathon and Ray Deasy. An, otherwise, small team assembled bolstered by the unexpected, but welcome, arrival of the antipodean contingent – Ray. At the end of the current focus of attention, I was digging, filling bags and removing rocks…
Roy Fellows would like the following safety advice to be published: With regard to the ladder at the top of a very loose slope of rocks on the climb up / SRT route above to skipway, please heed this advice for your safety. Following a recent incident, it is felt that there is a need…
12th April: with Tav, Jonathon,
Brockers and Duncan.
Five go digging! I
couldn’t make the trip last week, but others did and had cleared some of the
bang debris, the flake had been successfully fragmented. This
evening, we continued to clear the…
Respectable patent lawyer Peter Hamilton is found dead at a spot known as The Devil’s Dice, a remote crag in the Peak District which houses a vast network of caves known as The Labyrinth, feared for their complexity and dark reputation. The caves, now gated, have long been known as a suicide spot. The legend…
In today’s Information Age we’ve all become used to having what we want to know at our fingertips – literally! At times it seems as though everything we want or need to know is available online, but most of us probably mainly use the internet to argue with strangers and watch videos of cats! I…
With Jonathon, Alex, Jake, Tav and Nick. Tav digging, Nick clearing, I was on the slippery slope, Jake at the top, Alex on the haul and shuttle, leaving Jon on the surface. On arrival at the end, we discovered, there had been a bit of a slump on the…
This article first appeared in the South Wales Caving Club newsletter for April 2018 and is reprinted here with kind permission from the author Gary Vaughan and the South Wales Caving Club. Gary wishes it to be known that the views expressed in this article represent his own personal views and not necessarily the…
Here are some brief snippets of news, courtesy of Roy Fellows. Filming for “Hidden Wales” Lazerbeam Productions has been filming surface and underground at Cwmystwyth for a forthcoming series “Hidden Wales”. Roy accompanied a filming team underground and he will probably feature quite a lot in the Cwmystwyth episode, which he hopes will provide a bit of…
At 3.5 meters long and with a shoulder height of 1.7 meters, the cave bear was one of the giants of the Ice Age. Yet few appear to have survived until the last glacial maximum 24,000 to 19,000 years ago. Researchers have conducted analyses to find out …
4 Three Peaks walkers (m:23,22,17, f:21) reported themselves lost descending Ingleborough towards Horton, in poor weather conditions (snow and strong winds). A team of 7 members using CRO2 located the walkers near a gate on the track from Sulber Nick t…
A lone walker (m) was reported overdue by his partner, walking ‘in the Pen-y-ghent area’. As the duty controller was talking to the Police to establish further details, the walker contacted his partner by phone to say he was okay and about …
Conservation work in 2003 in Goatchurch Cavern on the Mendips revealed some fine inscribed marks on calcite flowstone next to the Giant’s Steps. The marks resembled the letter W and aroused interest as the patina was considerably darker than the lighter exposed calcite nearby in graffiti dated 1704. We filed them in the mental compartment…
Two walkers (f59, m58) reported themselves lost ‘after the shooting hut’ on the descent to Horton from Ingleborough summit, and requested that someone call them back with instructions for the route. Repeated attempts to contact them on the …
