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If you have reached this site via a redirect from Caving.UK, welcome ... This is the new home for Wild Places Publishing and Descent magazine, presenting all the news and the best articles on caves and caving.
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The next edition of Descent will be published on: 4 February 2012

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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.

Descent is now in full colour. Complete author and survey indexes are now online and searchable

The current issue is: Descent (223) for December/January 2011/12 and is a special edition with eight extra pages

Don't forget to order your copy of Underground Worlds, a classic, quality caving calendar for 2012 (last few remaining)

Features

The Caves of the Haut-Languedoc

Put thirty-plus cave photographers of international standing together in one place for a week and the likely outcome is a whole load of top quality pictures. Here, then, are just some of the results in another of our extra-page special editions of Descent. The links mentioned in the article are available here.

At Last, a Reality

For over four decades cavers have striven to connect a series of caves to form the Three Counties System. The breakthrough on 6 November 2011 made that prediction a reality.

Once You Taste It ...

Artur Kozlowski – a pioneer cave diver renowned and held in high regard for his discoveries in Irish caves – died while following his dream: to explore, ever onwards.

Found and Lost

Discovering a prehistoric drawing in a British cave is an incredibly rare occurrence, despite decades of searching. This makes the motives behind its subsequent destruction impossible to understand.

Hidden Earth at Monmouth

The 2011 annual Hidden Earth event in Monmouth proved to be one of the best ever with plenty to interest everyone.

Gear review:
Step Daddy Tackle Bag and Illamina Undersuit

Cavers’ opinions after trying out a new tackle bag from Beast Products and an Aventure Verticale undersuit.

The Descent Caption Competition:
Grotta del Cane

The ever-popular Descent Caption Competition is back with five prizes to award for the best original (and silliest) entries. And not only do we have DVD copies of Cave of Forgotten Dreams to give away, reviewed in Descent (220), a set of Wainwright books has its own competition in the magazine. Plus, online only, we have an additional competition to win a copy of Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

Cover: Formations in Aven du Mont Marcou, France. Photo: Sergio Laburu and the Espeleofoto team

Back cover rollover: Caves of the Haut-Languedoc: Top and inset: Grotte des Crozes. Photos: Gaspard Magarinos & Andi Schober, and Michael Shopper; Bottom: Grotte des Ecossaises. Photo: Mark Shinwell