Darkness Below

Vince and Roz

Photographs by Roz, 24th June 2026

The best place to be during a heatwave is underground where the air is cool and fresh. Any excuse to go ‘rock bothering,’ creating more space to work in Can of Worms and reducing boulders at the bottom of the pot in the Soft South!

Photographs by Roz, 24th June 2026

Emerged t...

Vince, Tav, Jake, Nick, Jon, and Mike

Another day for the plugs & feathers to be pressed into action. Before that though dried bags to be packed and a bit of tinkering with the spoil heap wall while waiting for the team to assemble.

Underground in Can of Worms with Tav, we decided to widen the approach to the ‘loose’ rock flake giving...

Vince, Jon, Harley, Brockers, Tav, Nick, and Jake

Earlier start for me, a boulder to break up in CoW. Soon got to work with plugs and feathers to reduce boulder to more manageable pieces.

Plugs and feathers put to work! A ‘mixture’ of calcite and conglomerate.

When the rock was split some fine examples of calcite-crystal growth were e...

Yorkshire Ambulance Service asked the team to assist a walker who had collapsed on the Three Peaks route above High Birkwith.  Despite the best efforts of family members, other walkers, team members, and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance crew, the casualty could not be resuscitated.  Our thoughts are with his family and friends. FATAL Volunteer hours: 63

The team were called by North Yorkshire Police to assist a member of a school party (M, 12) who had fallen on the track near to Ingleborough Cave and injured his shoulder. A small team was quickly sent from our depot to the show cave. The youth was assessed and treated at the scene by team members and then returned to our depot where he was handed over to the…