<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf8" /> <title>Lost Rucksack Hole 1st descent</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/main2.css" /> </head> <body> <img src="../i/lrh.jpg" width=491 height=676> <p>Adam Cooper starting an SRT descent of a newly discovered shaft on the plateau in 1993. The shaft had already been investigated on ladder - necessary because, as the name "Lost Rucksack Hole" suggests, he had dropped his rucksack containing the rope into the shaft in a careless moment. <p>This sort of entrance is typical of prospecting on the plateau. Also typical is the fact that no-one could find the shaft again in 1993. It was given number <a href="../../200.htm">CUCC93-01</a>, and re-found in 1995, but no gear was to hand. Thus it remained unexplored beyond this surface shaft until 1998, when it was finally bottomed in three trips, numbered 1623/200, and very definitely fixed by GPS and surface survey and marked with a metal tag. We won't be losing that one again, at least ! <br><font size=-1>Photo © Andy Waddington 1993</font> <!-- Kodachrome 64 slide AL244, Photo-CD 6121 1651 2353 img 29 --> <hr /> </body> </html>