The Squeeze

Gather your wits, caver, and brace yourself for a squeeze. No other moment epitomises the caving experience than writhing headlong...

Terrible twins

The landscape underground rivals that above in every way. At Twin Waterfalls, two cascades tumble through a cavern and then...

Emerge into Starlight

Harwood’s Hole connects to Starlight Cave after a series of tortuous squeezes and rocky descents. Suddenly the caver is surrounded...

Climb through Shorty’s Terror

Shorty’s Terror is enough to frighten the hardiest soul. The massive cave narrows to a tube and the cave floor...

The quick way home

After climbing out of the Starlight Cave, there are two options for cavers—huck your gear up the rockfall and walk...

The Chamber

Cavers light up the interior of a massive chamber, some 60 metres across and just as high. The ground is...

Make camp in a cave

Some 260 metres below the surface, cavers make camp in a dry crook of the cave system known as The...

Rig a Tyrolean traverse

Caver use a rigging technique called a Tyrolean traverse to swing gear—or themselves—between two fixed points across a river or...

Approaching the chasm

A through-caver takes what they need for one, hard day of caving, passing though the system without stopping. But to...

At the belay

As the caver gets close to the bottom of the 176-metre abseil, the relative weight of the remaining rope gets...
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