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If you have reached this site via a redirect from Caving.UK, welcome ... This is the new home for Wild Places Publishing and Descent magazine, presenting all the news and the best articles on caves and caving.
Descent: written by cavers, produced by cavers and read by cavers ... Everywhere!
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The next edition of Descent will be published on: 2 June 2012

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Welcome to Wild Places Publishing

**and Descent magazine**

Wild Places Publishing produces specialist caving publications, perhaps the best known being Descent magazine. In these pages you will find more about Descent as well as our other books and products, in addition to any late news received after the magazine went to print.

Descent is now in full colour. Complete author and survey indexes are now online and searchable

The current issue is: Descent (225) for April/May 2012 and is a Three Counties System special edition

Features

The Final Piece of the Jigsaw

Tim Allen opened our major coverage of the Three Counties System final link in Descent (224) and now concludes the story of how the team attained that major achievement.

Going Head to Head on Leck Fell

As if concluding the Three Counties link-up was not enough, the team headed directly for Death’s Head Hole to work on another connection dig.

The Three Counties Media Circus

As cavers, we all know how the media portrays our sport, often with an inelegant description of what it involves and complete with utter inaccuracies. With the Three Counties link, however, the press outdid even its own poor record.

Christmas Cracker

No day is a good day to break a leg, let alone require a rescue callout – but then again, it’s perhaps made more embarrassing when you have to pull rescuers from their Christmas dinners ...

Nicola Makes the Grade

Cave rescue is going to see some changes, with a central European organisation in the offing and a new version of the Nicola radio passing its field trials and heading for production.

British Cavers Overseas

The expedition season is upon us – who is heading where in 2012?

Gear review:
Doming 3W Headlight

An updated Doming headlight now sports a powerful 3W LED – and at the price it sells for, it’s going to interest cavers!

Diving the Fou de Bor

The terminal sump of Fou de Bor begins at a static pool in a frequently visited Spanish mountain cave. It seemed time to take a good look, with the bonus of meeting the local caving godfather.

Cover: Formations in Cova des Pas de Vallgornera, Mallorca. Photo: Tony Merino

Back cover rollover: The waterfall into the Main Chamber in Gaping Gill and Lake Cadoux and waterfall in the Gouffre Berger, France. Photos: Robbie Shone