Keith Edwards | Peak Cavern - A Trip to Moss Chamber @CaverKeith | Uploaded 9 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
A 3m climb on the north wall of Upper Gallery about 150m upstream from Mucky Ducks leads into Pickering’s Passage - an unimposing 1m diameter phreatic tube. This is the start of a fine sporting trip which culminates in one of the best decorated chambers in Peak’s lower series.
It was also the scene of a terrible tragedy that began to unfold on Sunday 22nd March 1959 when Neil Moss a 20 year old Oxford undergraduate became wedged in a narrow vertical tube which leads off this chamber.
Erratum: The book 'Race Against Time - A History of the Cave Rescue Organisation' was written by Jim Eyre and John Frankland - not Franklin as shown in the closing credits.
A 3m climb on the north wall of Upper Gallery about 150m upstream from Mucky Ducks leads into Pickering’s Passage - an unimposing 1m diameter phreatic tube. This is the start of a fine sporting trip which culminates in one of the best decorated chambers in Peak’s lower series.
It was also the scene of a terrible tragedy that began to unfold on Sunday 22nd March 1959 when Neil Moss a 20 year old Oxford undergraduate became wedged in a narrow vertical tube which leads off this chamber.
Erratum: The book 'Race Against Time - A History of the Cave Rescue Organisation' was written by Jim Eyre and John Frankland - not Franklin as shown in the closing credits.
