The sport of caving is well-established in the UK and natural cave passages in the limestone areas of the UK offer a host of opportunites for exploration. The longest cave system in the British Isles is over 50km long and there are thousands which are shorter and easily accessible to cavers with the skills and experience to explore them.
The main caving regions of the UK, the Yorkshire Dales, the Peak District, South Wales and Mendip, together offer a lifetime's worth of quality caving. Caves come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and you can expect to come across huge walking passage, underground streams, low crawls, climbs, ducks - where the water meets the roof - and vertical sections known as pitches.
Safe progression through this challenging and varied environment needs a wide range of skills and good judgement. On our courses we teach the techniques needed to explore cave systems from novice to expert.
If you have a particular caving trip in mind private guiding can also be arranged. In Yorkshire the various long trips available in the Lancaster - Easegill system offer some superb caving. Kingsdale has a variety of excellent vertical trips including the through-trips of Swinsto and Simpsons. Click [ here ] for more information on guiding options.
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£100.00
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1:4 instruction
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£160.00
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1:3 instruction
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Some caving experience
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£160.00
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1:2 instruction
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Competent at SRT progression
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Experience
£160.00
for 2 days
1:3 instruction
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Competent at SRT progression and some rigging experience