Issue 134 - February/March 1997

Cover: Pant Mawr pot in watercolour. Artwork by David Bellamy.

Features:

Into the Black.

Oxford UCC's latest find in Ogof Draenen continues its inexorable march southwards with the discovery of Dolimore Series.

Mud, Sweat and Caves.

Join Pam Fogg, in search for caves in the equatorial heat of Kalimantan.

Subterranean Sketching.

If the concept of drawing, rather than photographing, your favourite sport appeals to you, here's your guide to beginning sketching underground.

De Profundis.

Who should have written the foreword to Race Against Time? A celebrity, or a bone fide victim such as Alan Jeffreys?

Caving Beneath the Gobi.

Mongolia's Gobi Desert; an arid, challenging tract of land. the problem is, would such a featureless area contain caves - and how do you find them again, even if you know where they are?

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

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