srt

On Saturday we spent a full day in a mine we've now visited 3 times between us, Red Rake in the Derwent valley. Our aim was to get to the very bottom, but as it turns out, this mine still has potentially vast areas for us to return to explore, including incredibly beautiful flooded tunnels that...

-GAPING GILL- Édouard-Alfred Martel (A Brief History of Exploration) The Portal Nestled in the high planes of the Yorkshire Dales runs the Fell Beck; a small river zig zagging the low points of the rolling hills. After a short run down stepped rocks, Fell Beck dissapears into a gigantic...

This is my second visit and this time I was determined to get to the lower sections. There are 2 rusty metal spikes to abseil off which were placed 20 years ago!! If you are not completely nuts and don’t exactly trust the spikes, it’s easy to run an extra rope in from outside as safety...

For those of you who climb and specifically use SRT, I'm looking for some advice on getting set up for SRT but can't find anything definitive on the net. I already climb sport and trad so have a sit in harness, 60m dynamic rope and various other bits and pieces. What extra things will I need...

From wikipedia So, 20 metres, not the tallest, but it is nontheless impressive as you walk around the bend in the stone track and it's looking straight at you. From the moment that me and Stoka heard it was being built, we decided to get on top of it, and today, i did :D It was...