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<img src="../i/lrh.jpg" width=491 height=676>
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<p>Adam Cooper starting an SRT descent of a newly discovered shaft on the
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plateau in 1993. The shaft had already been investigated on ladder -
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necessary because, as the name "Lost Rucksack Hole" suggests, he had dropped
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his rucksack containing the rope into the shaft in a careless moment.
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<p>This sort of entrance is typical of prospecting on the plateau. Also
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typical is the fact that no-one could find the shaft again in 1993. It was
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given number <a href="../../200.htm">CUCC93-01</a>, and re-found in 1995, but
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no gear was to hand. Thus it remained unexplored beyond this surface shaft
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until 1998, when it was finally bottomed in three trips, numbered 1623/200,
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and very definitely fixed by GPS and surface survey and marked with a metal
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tag. We won't be losing that one again, at least !
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<br><font size=-1>Photo © Andy Waddington 1993</font>
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