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Finalised Programme Friday Frank Pearson – Dark Horizons: 50 Years of Cave Exploration in the British Isles Friday 19:10 – 19:35 –  Watch lecture Chair: Andy Eavis In a country as densely populated as Britain, the chance of exploring boundless unknown regions seems remote, yet the underground remains one of the last great unexplored environments, and…

The film profiles the exploration of the deep caves of Ario in the Picos de Europa mountains, Northern Spain. At the apex of the operation are the cave diver…

Operating from the mountain village of Tresviso (Cantabria), in the eastern massif of the Picos de Europa, the current expedition team has been mapping and e…

2019 Anglo-Malaysian caving expedition to Gunung Mulu National Park in Borneo. Video features world-class caves including: Deer Cave, Nasib Bagus (Sarawak Ch…

A sequence of clips from the 2013 San Agustín Caving Expedition where the team of cavers and divers had to cave dive at the bottom of this deep cave in an at…