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Buy two or more Descent binders for a discount. Each binder holds two years of Descent: 12 issues, with multi-buy savings when posted to a UK address.
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A significant new link forged in the Three Counties System has produced the impetus for this major article in three parts: the history of the system, the latest breakthrough and where we go from here. Part of the article concerns the connection between Ireby Fell Cavern and Rift Pot and reproduces the latest survey.
A trip to the Hall of Thirty in Otter Hole isn't that unusual – but this is a special occasion for the person who found the cave.
There's sand and more sand, but Saudi Arabia's desert contains an estimated 400km of unmapped caves.
For cave photographers, this is how our wrap-round cover was shot.
Access to Mendip's Lamb Leer has been lost for years, but now a nearby dig holds the hope for a new route into the cave – and its location was predicted four decades ago.
Make us laugh and win an oversuit.
The court case involving the death of a schoolboy during a led caving trip has closed: here is the background to the fatality and what we can learn from the incident.
Not going on a traditional expedition this year? Why not stay at home and take part in an all-hands-on, two-week-long, money-saving digging project in the Peak?
It's amazing what can be learned about caves in a single day talking science and hydrology in and around Poole's Cavern.
Alan Jeffreys is ranting again, this time about an obsession.
Wrap-round cover: Rafts in the active river cave of Križna jama, Slovenia. Photo: Gaspard Magarinos and Andreas Schober
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Buy two or more Descent binders for a discount. Each binder holds two years of Descent: 12 issues, with multi-buy savings when posted to a UK address.
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Descent (24), July 1973 OUT OF PRINT Check here to see if a second-hand issue is available Not all of our second-hand issues are online, so please ask if you do not find what you are looking for
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Descent (62), January 1985 OUT OF PRINT Check here to see if a second-hand issue is available Not all of our second-hand issues are online, so please ask if you do not find what you are looking for
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Descent (19), November 1971 OUT OF PRINT Check here to see if a second-hand issue is available Not all of our second-hand issues are online, so please ask if you do not find what you are looking for
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Descent (57), March 1984This edition was misumbered (56) on the cover (but is correctly numbered inside)