<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html lang=en> <head> <title>Lost Rucksack Hole 1st descent</title> </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> <!-- LINKS --> <img alt=">" src="../../../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="../../../handbook/look4.htm">Prospecting</a> on the Loser Plateau.<br> <img alt=">" src="../../../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="../../index.htm">Plateau description</a><br> <img alt=">" src="../../../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="../../../index.htm">Back to Expedition Intro page</a><br> <img alt="--->" src="../../../../icons/lists/1.png"> <a href="../../../areas.htm">Area/subarea descriptions</a><br> <img alt="--->" src="../../../../icons/lists/1.png"> <a href="../../../indxal.htm">Full Index</a><br> <img alt="--->" src="../../../../icons/lists/1.png"> <a href="../../../areas.htm">Other areas</a><br> <img alt="------>" src="../../../../icons/lists/2.png"> <a href="../../index.htm">Plateau area index</a><br> <img alt=">" src="../../../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="../../../../index.htm">Back to CUCC Home page</a> </body> </html>