Issue 126 - October/November 1995

Cover: Red Passage, Lechuguilla Cave, USA. Photograph by Peter and Ann Bosted.

Features:

Edouard Martel en Irlande.

Martel is renowned as the man who first descended Gaping Gill, one hundred years ago. However, before that feat he was in Ireland, exploring Marble Arch.

Pushing Poultalloon.

Another major cave has been discovered on the Burren in Co. Clare. Here, fresh from the pushing front, is a taste of exploration.

Filming at Sunset.

Sid Perou, finally able to film a rescue in progress, discovers the reality of working underground while a casualty is inched towards the surface.

Seventh Heaven in Claonaite.

For years cavers have burrowed into the secrets of Uamh am Claonaite, trying to find the way onward past Sump 6. Earlier this year the key was found; the prize was far more than any had hoped for.

From Times Gone By.

A cache of photographs yields a glimpse of caving in the Dales.

Home of the Fighting Gobblers.

Attending a caving convention in the US brings more variety than might be imagined.

Electronics Underground.

Most cavers are content with simply going caving, so what's the point of using electronic gear as well? Mike Bedford, reporting on the Cave Radio and Electronics Group meeting in May, indicates the work underway and where it's heading.

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

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