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Descent (135)

April 1997

Descent (135)Follow That Frog!

For over three years divers in the Swansea Valley have worked to follow the underground course of the Ogof Ffynnon Ddu streamway, revealing over one kilometre of sumped passages in the process. With success came a new connection between OFD 1 and 2.

With Rationed Ropes and Spits

The 1996 Yangtze Caves expedition was divided into two teams: one ended up with deep shafts and no spits, the other with horizontal cave and lots of rope. How did this latest in the China Caves Project expeditions fare?

The Changing Face of UK Caving

Many cavers do not understand the basis of our national body, the NCA, perhaps never more so than at present. As changes to the constitution are debated, heated words have followed which question its role. Here, Glenn Jones puts forward the views of the CNCC, which Mick Day, the Chairman of the NCA, answers.

Cover: Little Fishes Cave, the second pitch in Flood Cave (upper inset) and Crawling Dog Hole (lower inset), China. Photos: Gavin Newman

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