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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition - People</h2>
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<p><img class="onleft" src="../i/andyw.jpg" width="128" height="150"
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<b>Andy Waddington</b>
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(Christ's 1975-8) started caving shortly before university, and joined CUCC
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at the first opportunity. Didn't miss a single term-time meet in his three
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years as a student, and only missed one vacation meet - keen, or what ? CUCC
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Secretary 1976/77 and Junior Treasurer 1977/78. Invited to join Austria
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expedition in 1977 and formed part of "team youth" who found and started
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exploring <a href="/1623/76/76.htm">Eislufthöhle</a>.</p>
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<p>Took a major part in 1978 and 1979 expeditions which finally bottomed
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this cave at -506m. Tried to organise a change of area for 1980, but had
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underestimated the politics involved, so returned to Loser where he and
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Mike Burgess found a new way on just inside the entrance to
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<a href="/1623/41/41.htm">Stellerweghöhle</a>, subsequently to
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become CUCC's deepest ever exploration. Missed 1981 owing to
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<a href="http://cucc.survex.com/jnl/1982/mexico.htm">caving in Mexico</a>
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and being at the International Congress of Speleology in the USA, then came
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along in 1982, 1984.</p>
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<p>Next joined expo early on in the exploration of
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<a href="/1623/161/top.htm">Kaninchenhöhle</a> in 1989, and
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again 1990, 1993, 1995 and 1996, 1998. He used to jointly hold the record for
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expedition attendance with <a href="miketa.htm">Mike Richardson</a> (12
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times), though hasn't done anything like as much caving on the last few
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expeditions (and the record expo attendance is now up to <a href="../index.htm">22</a>).</p>
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<img class="onleft" src="../i/andywaddington-march1985.jpg"
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alt="" /><p>Recently Andy's main rôle has been as a link with the early
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expeditions and as archivist, pulling together many of the scattered and
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fragmented details of past exploration into what has become the website you
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see around you (see <a href="../../handbook/c21bs.html">site genesis</a> article).
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Many of the surface photographs on the site, and just a tiny
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number of the underground ones were taken by Andy, who also did most of the
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image mastering work for the site.</p>
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<p>Apart from CUCC and Austria, Andy joined the
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<a href="https://northernpennineclub.org.uk/">Northern Pennine Club</a> in
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1976, becoming its Recorder and Librarian shortly afterwards, and holding
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that post for fourteen years. He now holds the newly created post of NPC
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Webmaster. In 1981, took part in the annual <b lang="es">Proyecto
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Espeleologico Purificación</b> of the Association for Mexican Cave
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Studies, visiting the <span lang="es">Purificación</span> system for
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two months. The project surveyed over 5km of new cave that year, taking its
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length over that of the UK's Easegill system.</p>
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<p>Also took part in NPC trips to <b lang="es">Cueva Culiembro</b> in the
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Cares gorge of the Picos de Europa in Northern Spain. This was originally a
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spin-off from the Oxford University Caving Club expedition, later getting
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permission independently. The main objective was for three NPC divers to push
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the main upstream sump. Not a diver himself, Andy's main rôle here was
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as sherpa and surveyor. Other trips, not all under the aegis of cucc/exCS,
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have seen Andy caving in the USA, French Pyrenees, Vercors, Belgian Ardennes
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and Majorca.</p>
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<li><a href="http://blogs.waddingtons.info/andrew/">Andy's
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blog</a> "Lets face it, if it doesn't involve getting changed outside in wind-driven sleet or hail, and/or swimming in water below
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10 degrees C, it's not really a sport ;-) "</li></ul>
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<p>Andy died of pancreatic cancer in 2024. A fine wake was held with many cavers attending.
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<hr style="clear: both" /><p class="caption">Photo © Mike Thomas, 1988.08.10</p>
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<li>Table of <a href="../index.htm">Expo members</a></li>
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