Issue 139 - December/January 1997/98

Cover: Two cavers ascend in tandem in Cueva de Cuchilla in northern Mexico. Photograph by Ann and Peter Bosted.

Features:

Hidden earth '97.

With 48 lectures and a host of competitions, this year's BCRA Conference was a huge success.

Beyond the Unexplored Extremity.

It's not often that an old archaeological site, well known and oft examined, is extended in a major way, but this is exactly what has happened at Kirkdale.

The Man with the Edge.

The news that rob parker died in August while diving in the blue holes of the Bahamas came as a crushing shock to everyone. Three of his friends pay tribute to this well loved caver.

The Stench of Tsarparang.

An investigation of a cave in tibet ... it was short, but with a difference.

Larf? I nearly Drowned.

Join Alan Jeffreys in a catalogue of errors.

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

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