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Make use of our indexes and, now online: search titles of articles in Descent as well as the location of all surveys, maps and authors of all articles.

Bind your editions of Descent and build a reference tool with all the major discoveries reported. Each issue of Descent includes cross-references to earlier reports, so you will always have these at your fingertips. For more information, click HERE

Descent (215)

August 2010

A Descent Special Edition: Major coverage of the Three Counties System with eight extra pages and a change to full colour throughout

Descent (215)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. A file with greater detail than can be incorporated in Descent's page area is held HERE.

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 (215)

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