Batch 3: Botanical Highway to Perihelion Pitch
Digital photos by Diane Arthurs and Simon Cornhill. (Bones can be seen here)
Climbing into the roof tube above the 2nd pitch - the start of the Botanical Highway. (Diane Arthurs)
Climbing into the roof tube above the 2nd pitch - the start of the Botanical Highway. (Diane Arthurs)
Climbing into the roof tube above the 2nd pitch - the start of the Botanical Highway. (Diane Arthurs)
Climbing into the roof tube above the 2nd pitch - the start of the Botanical Highway. (Diane Arthurs)
The 'sleeping rhinos' in the Botanical Highway. Seemingly levitating boulders. (Diane Arthurs)
The 'sleeping rhinos' in the Botanical Highway. Seemingly levitating boulders. (Diane Arthurs)
The 'sleeping rhinos' in the Botanical Highway. Seemingly levitating boulders. (Diane Arthurs)
The 'sleeping rhinos' in the Botanical Highway. Seemingly levitating boulders. (Diane Arthurs)
Deep holes in the floor of the Botanical Highway. (Diane Arthurs)
Negotiating the Botanical Highway. (Diane Arthurs)
Negotiating the Botanical Highway. (Diane Arthurs)
Looking across the top of Venus Flytrap, the first shaft (15m) met on the BH.) (Diane Arthurs)
Si rigging the descent of Venus Flytrap. (Diane Arthurs)
Si rigging the descent of Venus Flytrap. (Diane Arthurs)
Di and Si showing the vunerable spot where the bones were found. (Simon Cornhill)
Di and Si showing the vunerable spot where the bones were found. (Diane Arthurs)
Di and Si showing the vunerable spot where the bones were found. (Diane Arthurs)
Di climbing the Venus Flytrap pitch (Simon Cornhill)
At the top of the 2nd shaft (15m) on the Botanical Highway - Audry II. (Diane Arthurs)
At the top of the 2nd shaft (15m) on the Botanical Highway - Audry II. (Diane Arthurs)
Si climbing an old calcite flow at the bottom of Audry II. (Diane Arthurs)
Si climbing an old calcite flow at the bottom of Audry II. (Diane Arthurs)
BH continues: Si tackling the first squeeze across the top of Audry II pitch. (Diane Arthurs)
BH continues: Si tackling the first squeeze across the top of Audry II pitch. (Diane Arthurs)
Si dances on the false floor in the roof of Audry II and looks into the 2nd squeeze. (Diane Arthurs)
The passage after the rope traverse at the end of the Botanical Highway. (Diane Arthurs)
Sue's Grotto. (Diane Arthurs)
Sue's Grotto. (Diane Arthurs)
Sue's Grotto. (Diane Arthurs)
Looking up the side passage which has a small window onto the Perihelion Pitch. (Diane Arthurs)
Si looking out onto Perihelion Pitch. (Diane Arthurs)
Photo of station 119 on the lefthand wall just before Perihelion Pitch. (Diane Arthurs)
Window onto Perihelion Pitch. Stn 120 is on prominent white nobble to the left. (Diane Arthurs)
Looking down the 23m Perihelion Pitch. (Diane Arthurs)
Looking across the Perihelion Pitch from the window. (Diane Arthurs)
Looking across the Perihelion Pitch from the window. (Diane Arthurs)
Si looking down the 23m Perihelion Pitch. (Diane Arthurs)
Di ascending the Perihelion Pitch. (Simon Cornhill)