Post by Brian Roebuck on Aug 23, 2009 8:16:56 GMT -5
Deep Impact: Dicing with death 3,700ft below ground
The bright young adventurers of the Oxford University Caving Club plumb some of the deepest systems in the subterranean world. Occasionally they die doing so. At the age of 50, former member and Mail on Sunday writer David Rose went back below ground on a 132-hour odyssey to explore man's compulsion to map its furthest boundaries - whatever the cost