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<title>CUCC Expo member: Duncan Collis</title>
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<p><img class="onleft" src="../i/dunks.png" width="135" height="150"
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<b>Duncan Collis</b>, expedition 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2007.
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Came along at just the time when the furthest reaches of
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<a href="../../smkridge/161/top.htm">Kaninchenhöhle</a>
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were getting too far for most people to contemplate, and then
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<a href="../../smkridge/161/sftotp.htm#id161d">161d</a> changed all that.
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One of those responsible for revisiting
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<a href="../../smkridge/161/sibria.htm#siberia">Siberia</a>
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in 1997 and descending the 70m
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<a href="../../smkridge/161/sibria.htm#seproblem">Somebody Else's
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Problem</a>. In 1998, he and Steve Bellhouse pushed this down another large
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pitch, <a href="../../smkridge/161/sibria.htm#moscow">Midnight in Moscow</a>,
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and a series of shorter drops to a pretty definite conclusion at a new deep
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point of 533m (527m below the original entrance).</p>
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<p>In 1999, he and Anthony Day along with Mick Thompson found the entrance
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to <a href="../../smkridge/204/entrance.html">Steinbrückenhöhle</a>,
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which was to become the focus of the next several years' expeditions. In 2001 and 2002
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he was involved in pushing <a href="../../smkridge/204/ariston.html#razor">Razordance</a>,
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finally reaching the bottom at a depth of 596m from the 204a entrance during the big
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push of 2007.</p>
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<p>Now lives in China as a member of the <a href="http://www.hongmeigui.net/">
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Hongmeigui Cave Exploration Society</a>.</p>
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<hr style="clear: both" /><p class="caption">Photo © Duncan Collis, 1996</p>
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<!-- Photo from Dunk's gif 1998.08.22 -->
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