Cover: Dave Checkley and Kev Senior in Upstream Doline Cave, China. Photograph by Tony Baker.

Features:

A Good Rung for your Money.

Join Alan Jeffreys for the first in a series of irregular observations on life, the universe, and things down holes.

Over a Score.

Ogof Draennen captured everybody's hopes for wonderous extensions. Here is the best of exploration, though not every push leads to a breakthrough.

Into Downstream Doline.

The local people call the world's largest doline 'Xio Zhai', the Big Hole in The Sky. But what course does the water take: the best through-trip on earth?

Sleets Gill: A natural paranoia.

Les Hewitt, trapped by floods and now by a film crew, learns to deal with fame.

Plus the regular Newsdesk, reports from Wales, Derbyshire, Ireland, Mendip, North, Forest of Dean, International and Mining.

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