From 52fc2aec681afcb9a0bb64275af113d2185bc744 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wookey Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:46:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update UBSS intro to inculde recent expos, improved relations, and possible revisit. --- others/ubss/index.htm | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/others/ubss/index.htm b/others/ubss/index.htm index 06e6d577f..10e1b73e3 100644 --- a/others/ubss/index.htm +++ b/others/ubss/index.htm @@ -17,13 +17,27 @@ clubs. Most famous for its work in the caves of County Clare, and also much involved in Mendip caving, the UBSS also venture further afield.

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Steve Perry (once dubbed "the fittest man on Mendip") was a CUCC -member with UBSS connections, who was on the 1977 expedition. Other -UBSS members first joined CUCC's Austria expedition as guests in -1980, and UBSS was a "guest club" on the CUCC expedition in both -1981 and 1982, after which their involvement declined. The work -done by UBSS members was written up in the prestigious Proceedings -of UBSS.

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There has been a long history of UBSS guests and combined +expeditions. 1981, 1982 and 2011 have been formally billed as combined +expeditions, but many other years have have UBSS members along: 1977, +1980, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2010. In 2011, for the first time ever, the +expedition leader was (an UBSS member) based outside Cambridge. A few +long-term expogoers have been UBSS members: Steve Perry on the +earliest expeditions, and Andrew Atkinson in the 1990s/2000s, who +between tham have been on 16 of the 34 expeditions so far.

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There have also been a few independent UBSS visits, which occurred +in 1989, 1990 and 1992, and caused some political difficulties with +permissions from the Austrians at the time, not helped by the 1989 +rescue when the chopper found the UBSS group on Augst-Eck before the +CUCC rescue site, at the Kaninchenhöle 161a entrance on the nearby Hinter.

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Relations with the Austrians have improved enormously since that low +point and everyone is now friends again. Future combined expeditions +are planned, including a return to the UBSS 1989-1992 area to properly +integrate and update that work.

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Proceedings of the University of Bristol Speleological @@ -42,9 +56,7 @@ Barker et al

Unknown to CUCC a few UBSS members staged independent expeditions to an area north of -the plateau. There were three trips (1989, 1990 and 1992). -Very much to CUCCs embarassment, in 1989, when an "English group camped on Augst-Eck" were found by the -helicopter during Becka's rescue. This did not help an already delicate political situation.

+the plateau. There were three trips (1989, 1990 and 1992).

Approximately 30 sites were explored and described. These have been numbered as BS1 to BS30. The most significant find was BS17, Organhöhle, with a surveyed length of 850 m and depth of 303 m.