Never understood these risk of death hobbies. Is it an adrenalin rush ?For once in my life I'm so happy to be fat so as to not to ever have to consider taking up this "hobby" .. but I can't help watching this guys videos ..
Careful if you're claustrophobic .. he squeezes his way through tight underground tunnels
Haha…Never understood these risk of death hobbies. Is it an adrenalin rush ?
really a case of dont go out unless your journey is essential. And its not essential to go into a cave.
Free climbing is another - why?
I'd include SCUBA diving as well
So much to answerHaha…
Mate, believe it or not but some people are wired differently from you
I watched ‘the cave’ on Netflix - you might want to watch it. Those cavers talked about a peace and calmness being underground.
Sounded like they had found their equivalent to you watching boro win 4-0
We’re all different and you need to be ultra calm also to free rock climb
So much to answer
but i am never ultra calm not even calm
i think im wired up correctly
I dont need to risk my life to enjoy shove half penny although there has been times I could tell you
people were not meant to be underground otherwise we would have been born with wings
John Malkovich is getting younger in that cave, maybe caving is the key. Couldn't watch more than 10 seconds of that thoughFor once in my life I'm so happy to be fat so as to not to ever have to consider taking up this "hobby" .. but I can't help watching this guys videos ..
Careful if you're claustrophobic .. he squeezes his way through tight underground tunnels
Think it's his nephew .. sometimes he has his niece with him too ..Is that his son in some of his videos hes caving with?
I knew a lad from Summerset many years ago who was into his caving. I always remember him telling me the Yorkshire area was by far and away the most dangerous place to go caving due to how fast the area fills with water. Apparently its due to the type of rock in that part of the world.When I worked for Connexions PAYP we took a group of young offenders caving in the Yorkshire Dales. The night before I hardly slept worrying about what I was getting myself into - One of the passages in the cave was called the cheese press.
Anyway, we get all the group kitted out and in we go accompanied by an alsatian dog belonging to the group leader. The dog would squeeze through the tight spaces with you and would give himself a good shake to get the water off him. I am sure he knew what he was doing and that we couldn't do a thing about it.
About an hour into it I am thinking what a great experience and was adding it to one of the best activities I had taken part in when the group leader approaches me and explains that the cave was beginning to fill up with water and we needed to get the group out quickly. He goes on to explain not to say out to the group about the water so not to frighten them and that he will lead the way and asks me to bring up the rear and not allow the stragglers to linger. My first thought was, why can't I lead and he brings up the rear.
We explain to the group that it was time to go and straight away they are questioning why and that they haven't been in the main chamber yet. Now the group we were with were experts at challenging why and knowing their rights. I explain that it's taken us longer than we thought and need to go. Reluctantly we get them moving but it is taking longer than we thought. He again mentions we need to hurry them up without scaring them. What he doesn't realise is, I am now absolutely crapping myself.
Cutting a long story short and after some raised voices by myself to get the group moving we finally get them all out. The leader explains to me that it was a close call. The next week we had another group booked on the same activity and cried off.
Although I enjoyed going in, I would never do it again.
The picture below is taken from Google and shows someone going through the chees press.
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