A caving group reported that one of their number was on the first pitch (100 ft / 30 m) of Diccan Pot when they heard a bang. When they pulled at the rope, they found that it was taut. Diccan is part of the Long Churn Cave / Alum Pot system and access to the first pitch is by a traverse, meaning that someone standing at the top cannot see…
A potholer (m) was reported to have displaced a loose boulder which trapped his leg and broke it in two places on the slope into what was then the final chamber of Gingling Hole. His companions made splints from a camera tripod and a wooden ladder rung before trying to move him. Meanwhile, it was about three and a quarter hours before their club-mate who had gone out for help…
A caver reported that four companions (m, 59; f, 38; m, 26; m, 26) — two experienced and two less so — were unable to reach their ladder from the streamway up to the Roof Tunnel in Kingsdale Master Cave because of fast-flowing and rising water. As the first rescue team members began to move into the Roof Tunnel, they encountered the mispers making their way safely to the surface.…
Cumbria Police alerted the team when a party of cavers (2m, 4f) doing a through trip from Pool Sink to Wretched Rabbit in Ease Gill were reported by their callout person to be significantly overdue. Team members proceeded to Bull Pot Farm to search the route the cavers had taken, while members of the CRO Cavers List and underground members of Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association (UWFRA) were placed on…
