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Cavers 'died trying to escape' flooded system

The entrance to Long Churn CaveAn experienced caver and his novice colleague probably died because they tried to escape from a flooded cave, rather than staying put, an inquest heard today.

The entrance to Long Churn Cave

Engineer Caroline Fletcher, 28, perished on her first trip underground in the Yorkshire Dales. She drowned, along with her workmate Stuart Goodwill, 33, after heavy rain turned an underground stream into a torrent. A team from the Cave Rescue Organisation found the pair entangled in ropes in Lower Long Churn Cave, near Selside, Ribblesdale.
 
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Blood, sweat and fears: the Three Peaks Race

Andy Peace and Mitja Kosovelj race down Pen-y-ghent

It is doubtful the quiet Yorkshire Dales village of Horton in Ribblesdale had ever seen anything like it.

Above: Andy Peace and Mitja Kosovelj race down Pen-y-ghent

Accustomed though it is to a regular weekend influx of visitors heading for the shapely fells surrounding it, the 498 inhabitants of the community found their home took on a distinctly more cosmopolitan feel as some of the globe’s top long-distance athletes – and their supporters, descended on Horton.
 

A short trip to Moughton's alien landscape

Moughton

In the winter months, daylight hours are at a premium and getting in a long walk means careful planning and an early start if you are not to end the day walking in darkness or, worse still benighted and calling for help.

So it’s useful to have a few shorter routes up the Gore-tex sleeve, so you don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn, nor worry about being caught on the fells at night. This walk takes us into an upland wonderland of strange unearthly terrain.
 

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