Caving in the United Kingdom
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Recreational caving in the United Kingdom dates back to the mid-19th century. The four major caving areas of the United Kingdom are North Yorkshire, South Wales, Derbyshire, and the Mendips. Minor are
Duke Street in the Three Counties System, the longest cave system in the UK
Neil Moss incident
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Oscar Hackett Neil Moss was a British student who died in a caving accident. A twenty-year-old undergraduate studying philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, Moss became jammed underground, 1,000 feet
Caving in the United Kingdom
…from BSA in 1948. Jim Eyre was one of the first European cavers to explore the caves of Asia. Interest in caving grew rapidly in the 1950s and 60s. Neil Moss was the victim of a famous caving accident after descending a narrow unexplored shaft in Peak Cavern in Derbyshire 1959. This period saw the formation…
Neil Moss
Entrance to Peak Cavern in 2015