Issue 138 - October/November 1997

Cover: Diana Gietl at the bottom of the Moulin de la souveraintete, Greenland. Photograph by Marc Tremblay.

Features:

Electronic Aids in caving.

As electronics impinge more and more into caving, here is a review of what GPS receivers and palm-top computers offer in the field.

In casteret's Footsteps.

'We entered a large chamber with walls of pure crystal and its once white floor flat as a still pool. On this 'lake' of calcite sailed galleons of rock and we wandered round like children in fairyland.' Join Len Cook for another of his tales of caving in the 1950s.

A Yorkshireman in the Rockies.

Caving is a very different experience 1,500m up in the Rockies at minus 30 degrees. Here is the first 'Letter from BC' from Yorkshireman Clive Keen.

A Congressional Hearing.

The twelfth UIS International Congress was held in Switzerland in August. If you weren't able to attend, this is what you missed.

The Twang Cave Extensions.

Twang Cave in Dentdale was first explored in December 1995. Now, the sump blockage has been bypassed to more than double the cave's length.

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

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