Why do we go caving? We go caving for the thrill of descending deep underground shafts that few on the surface know even exists. We go for the stimulation of the conquering and exploration. We go caving because of the physical challenge involved, be it through mud and water, tight passages and deep pits.
Our reward is the splendour and beauty of formations others can only dream of, or pay their five pounds to see at White Scar. We go caving for the sheer wonderment of countless straw stalactites that took a millennium to form by nature.
We go caving and stand in awe at huge caverns sculptured by streams whose origins lay hundreds of feet above our heads. We feel privileged, to stand in a timeless world dark and silent, whose scalloped walls have been there from time immemorial.
We go caving for the thrill and expectation of finding a passage or system that no man on earth has yet entered. We go caving motivated onwards by an inner need to conquer a particular hole, to emerge, lay back, and say, "I've done it!".
The beauty of the Yorkshire Dale's, above and below ground, is all we ask for. We go caving because below ground we can dismiss from our thought man's inhumanity to our planet. We go caving because it's what we want to do, and in doing it we have the comfort and satisfaction in knowing that we are not harming anything.
We go caving comforted in the fact that should we be injured a group of fellow cavers will launch themselves through the mud and the water to get us out. For they too know the lure of the cave.
Seen through the eye of the "public", cavers on the Kingsdale highway are something to slow down for, and utter in ignorance their sceptic remarks. They know not, the challenge, the enticement, the beauty of the cave; it is they who are ignorant.
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