My first caving experience

[RoSs_bg2_rox]

I haven t exactly been on a caving experience as such, but when i went to Austria I had a tour round the biggest ice cave in the world and it was amazing. it was also quite funny because the guy onfront of us set his jeans alight with a parifin lamp [img]graemlins/doh.gif[/img]

[dplax]

I once went on a caving trip about 6 or 7 years ago, nd it was quite fun.

[Donut]

Harks.I can understand why people go mountain climbing, or row single handed across the Atlantic, I can see the fun in wrestling alligators or bungee jumping.

But I can honestly say I have absolutely no idea why anyone in their right minds would ever, in any circumstance, climb into a hole in the ground for fun!



One of my teachers was a part time member of the Cave Rescue Service. She told how they were called to help a woman who had tried to gou round a tight corner facing forwrd. Apparently you must go round backwards so that your knees can bend around the corner. She was wedgeds by her knees and they had to break her legs to get her out.

She died on the way back to the surface. Nice!

[Zuvio]

Originally posted by Donut: Harks.I can understand why people go mountain climbing, or row single handed across the Atlantic, I can see the fun in wrestling alligators or bungee jumping. But I can honestly say I have absolutely no idea why anyone in their right minds would ever, in any circumstance, climb into a hole in the ground for fun! One of my teachers was a part time member of the Cave Rescue Service. She told how they were called to help a woman who had tried to gou round a tight corner facing forwrd. Apparently you must go round backwards so that your knees can bend around the corner. She was wedgeds by her knees and they had to break her legs to get her out. She died on the way back to the surface. Nice!

That's a singled-out, horrific event against many where people have enjoyed the caving and didn't have had any problems.

Just like bungee-jumping: it's great fun, but one has to realise that there is a chance that it might go wrong and that you might die. It's the risk you take extreme fun. And caving is a grand experience on its own, if youlike that sort of things.

[Donut]

That's a singled-out, horrific event against many where people have enjoyed the caving and didn't have had any problems. Just like bungee-jumping: it's great fun, but one has to realise that there is a chance that it might go wrong and that you might die. It's the risk you take extreme fun. And caving is a grand experience on its own, if youlike that sort of things.

No - I've always shuddered at the idea of pot holing!

[ 10-13-2003, 10:57 AM: Message edited by: Donut ]

[Harkoliar]

thanks for the warning donut.. i will be extra careful in the future. there are always risks involve and caving gives a higher risk than normal. i will be careful in the future, and i was saying to myself when I got stuck (for a short while) in a pesky hole, I kept wondering myself, why the hell am I doing this? reason? I want to enjoy my life to the fullest the way I know how. [img]smile.gif[/img] .. or course I will not be doing that anytime soon. Rapelling will be my next target. . and scuba diving