Descent (299), August 2024
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Descent (299), August 2024

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Breaking Through Slaughter
The Forest of Dean has long been home to a number of committed diggers. Their recent connection in Slaughter Stream Cave, as reported by Ian Healey, has created what is sure to become one of the UK’s classic caving trips.

The Great Round Trip in the Forest
Chris Scaife describes the first ever Long Round Trip in Slaughter Stream Cave – an event that was supposed to be a ceremonial procession, but turned into a Poseidon adventure.

Eric Holland: Hero or Villain?
Eric Holland has a complicated legacy. The author of five books, but with a writing career heavily tarnished by plagiarism scandals, he was  also an inspirational figure to some, as Phil Murphy writes.

São Desidério and Terra Ronca
If you were impressed by the formations in the first part of Martyn Farr’s Brazil article, in Descent 298, just wait till you see these!

North by North End Pot
Tim Allen reports on another great find by the Space Miners: a surface dig that turned into an archaeological site and then broke into the Three Counties system.

Violet Smith and the Fairlawn Hotel
Simon Brooks writes about a hotel, and its owner, that played a major part in shaping the Meghalaya caving expeditions.

Johnny B. Goode and the Dave Gill Demons
Following the death of Dave Gill, Stuart Weston and Andy Maloney remember a tale of hallucinations and jungle disappearances, in which Dave was a lifesaver.

Putting Your Feet Up at the Buttertubs
Peter Ryder describes his first foray into SRT, a 15m descent with his feet pointing vertically upwards against the rock wall.

Cover: Rachel Smith in Terra Ronca 2, Brazil. Photo: Martyn Farr
Back cover: Harwood’s Hole, digital art of the 180m entrance pitch in New Zealand. Artwork: Peter ‘Snablet’ MacNab

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44

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August 2024

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0046-0036

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