Caving

Some photos and notes on my exploits below:

The Red Rose 50th Anniversary Photograph taken in Bull Pot of the Witches, Cumbria See Photography	Members of The Red Cave & Pothole Club digging for new caves on Leck Fell, Lancashire.
I have been an active caver for many years and have been a member of the RRCPC nearly as long. I have been caving across Europe, Central Asia and the USA. Here I am on a photography trip in Lancaster Hole part of the longest cave system in the U.K.
	My caving club is actively exploring the Lancaster-Ease Gill Caverns System, the longest system in the U.K. We are resurveying the cave at present. Opposite is Ray Duffy, our Club Secretary and one of the main surveyors admiring formations in Lancaster Hole. The system is well described at the websiote above. The cave survey is being processed using a program called survex which we obtained from the Cave Survey Group Go to the Red Rose web site for more information on this surveying project. The club is based at Bull Pot Farm from where the photo below was taken. The photo opposite shows the entrance to Lancaster Hole. This is 30 metre shaft.
In 1990 I was a member of a team who explored the Kirktau area near Samarkand in Uzbeckistan. See Link In the summer of 1991 I jointly led an expedition to explore an area of the Pamir Mountains in Tadzhikistan. After flying to Dushanbe we were transported by helicopter into the mountains near the border with Afghanistan where we explored two areas and a number of new caves and mapped the surrounding area. Contact was also made with the local people, who were, to say the least, surprised to see us. I was also part of a team to explore the Giant Gypsum Caves of the Ukraine. I have a separate page for this!	Link to photo
	I have a wide selection of photographs and slides and can offer a presentation of some of the caves and limestone scenery of parts of the British Isles and Western Europe. Included in Britain are the Yorkshire Dales, South Wales, Derbyshire, Mendip Hills and Ireland. In Europe caves featured include those in France, Spain and Switzerland. Some spectacular karst scenery with impressive caves below. Here you can see Hugh St Lawrence getting a well earned drink at Bivouac 1 in the Hölloch. This is western Europe's longest cave and is located in the the Swiss Alps. It is only fully accessible in winter when the water above the cave is frozen.
New Year Series, Aygill Caverns Part of the Lancaster-Ease Gill Caverns System. The Red Rose has recently surveyed Aygill Cavern as part of the survey of this cave system. Go to the Red Rose web site for more information on this surveying project.
	Spanish Caving Pete Seed talking to a duck in Carcaveso, a cave forming part of the Four Valleys System in the Matienzo area of Northern Spain. Have a look at the Matienzo web site. A British caving Expedition in Spain.
	Marion Dunn in Cueva del Humo, Matienzo 1989