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The next edition of Descent will be published on:
2 October 2010


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Welcome to Wild Places Publishing

and Descent magazine

Wild Places Publishing produces specialist caving publications, perhaps the best known being Descent magazine. In these pages you will find more about Descent as well as our other books and products, in addition to any late news received after the magazine went to print.


The current issue is:

Descent (215) for August / September 2010

 

This is a Descent Special Edition with major coverage of the Three Counties System, eight extra pages and a change to full colour throughout


Descent current coverFeatures

 

The Three Counties

A significant new link forged in the Three Counties System has produced the impetus for this major article in three parts: the history of the system, the latest breakthrough and where we go from here.

Part of the article concerns the connection between Ireby Fell Cavern and Rift Pot and reproduces the latest survey. This is available online: click here for more information.

Otter's Memory Lane

A trip to the Hall of Thirty in Otter Hole isn't that unusual – but this is a special occasion for the person who found the cave.

The Caves of Khaybar

There's sand and more sand, but Saudi Arabia's desert contains an estimated 400km of unmapped caves.

Shooting a Classic Cover

For cave photographers, this is how our wrap-round cover was shot.

Unravelling the Lamb Leer Enigma

Access to Mendip's Lamb Leer has been lost for years, but now a nearby dig holds the hope for a new route into the cave – and its location was predicted four decades ago.

The Descent Caption Competition:
Napoleon Comes to Town

Make us laugh and win an oversuit.

Learning from the Manchester Tragedy

The court case involving the death of a schoolboy during a led caving trip has closed: here is the background to the fatality and what we can learn from the incident.

The Credit Crunch Expedition

Not going on a traditional expedition this year? Why not stay at home and take part in an all-hands-on, two-week-long, money-saving digging project in the Peak?

Named for an Outlaw

It's amazing what can be learned about caves in a single day talking science and hydrology in and around Poole's Cavern.

The Bottom Line:
Obsession

Alan Jeffreys is ranting again, this time about an obsession.


Wrap-round cover: Rafts in the active river cave of Križna jama, Slovenia. Photo: Gaspard Magarinos and Andreas Schober

Descent: The magazine of underground exploration