Gallery

Grand Cenote, System Tulum, Mexico. (Photographer: Gavin Newman)

Alum Pot, Yorkshire Dales. UK. (Photographer: Mark Burkey)

Hauling Dive Gear To Sump 2 Along Main Stream Passage. Izor Licanke, Croatia. (Photographer: Mark Burkey)

Sunbeams in Doline 1 Hang Son Doong, Vietnam. (Photographer: Ryan Deboodt)

Straw Grotto, Upper Travertine passage, Ogof Craig a Ffynnon. South Wales (Photographer: Mark Burkey)

Sunbeams in Hang En, Vietnam (Photographer: Ryan Deboodt)

Modern cave photographers have a comparatively easy time of things, with purpose-made equipment and adapted light sources. Krem Sakwa in Meghalaya, India (Photographer: Chris Howes)

Jon Bevan in the newly discovered Pinocchio Pot, Gragareth., Yorkshire Dales, UK. (Photographer: Frank Pearson)

Aven es Pebres, Gard, France. (Photographer: Mark Shinwell)

Tim Allen, Joe Giblin, Geoff Yeadon and Geoff Crossley about to descend a pitch in Perilous Pot on Leck Fell, Yorkshire Dales, UK. (Photographer: Frank Pearson)

The Tube, Peak Cavern, Peak District, England, UK. (Photographer: Rob Eavis)

Corinne Arnold collecting a sample of biofilm for microbiological analysis from Cromford Sough, Derbyshire, UK (Photographer: John Gunn)

Dr. Gina Moseley works on the mass spectrometer dating samples of stalagmites at the University of Minnesota (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

‘The Balcony’ looking out in to Alum Pot, Yorkshire Dales, UK. (Photographer: Mark Burkey)

Whiterock, Mulu, Borneo, Malaysia. (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Hayley Clark sitting next to a lava plunge pool in Kazamura Cave, Hawaii (Photographer: Ed Waters)

Chris Blakeley admires hoar frost in the Crystal Palace, Greenland (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Formations towards the end of Hang Son Doong. (Photographer: John Spies)

Pearslian Gulf, Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico, USA. (Photographer: Gavin Newman)

Christoph Spötl and Gina Moseley collect sample of sediment from a cave in Greenland (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Cave Pearls in Pearslian Gulf, Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico, USA. (Photographer: Gavin Newman)

Perfect tube cutting through beds of limestone Hang Son Doong, Vietnam (Photographer: Ryan Deboodt)

Ashley Hiscock & Rick van dijk in the first sump pool during the 2017 expedition to push the far reaches of Izor Licanke, Croatia. (Photographer: Mark Burkey)

Sir Francis Level, Swaldale, England, UK. (Photographer: Mark Shinwell)

The porter team leaving Hang En in the distance, Vietnam (Photographer: Ryan Deboodt)

The Bush, Where the sun don’t shine, Daren Cilau, South Wales, UK. (Photographer: Mark ‘ Gonzo’ Lumley)

Charles Waldack – Pioneer cave photographers experimented with any light source they could find, as here in 1866 by burning magnesium that produced clouds of fumes. (Photographer: Charles Waldack)

Gaping Gill Main Chamber, Yorkshire Dales, UK. (Photographer: Dave Ryall)

Climbing up to first doline with camp in background 500m away Hang Son Doong, Vietnam. (Photographer: Ryan Deboodt)

Dave Appleing in the main passage of Omongongo Pot, Kaokoland, Namibia, Africa(Photographer Mark Tringham)

Myotis pilosus, Rickett’s big-footed bat. Taken during species analysis in Krem Phlang Karun, Northern India (Photographer: Mark Burkey)

Approaching cave monitoring site, Ragged Staff Cave, Gibraltar (Photographer Tim Atkinson)

John Middleton in the main streamway of Lancaster Hole, part of the Three Counties Cave System in the Yorkshire Dales karst (Photographer: Tony Waltham)

Krem Liat Prah, Meghalaya, India. (Photographer: Hugh Penney)

The top of giant stalagmite in Doline 1 with Doline 2 1km away in background Hang Son Doong, Vietnam (Photographer: Ryan Deboodt)

Boxhead Pot, Leck Fell, Yorkshire Dales, UK. (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

The base of the 500m shaft in Miao Keng, Tian Xing, Wulong, Chongqing, China. (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Bakerloo Straight, Dan Yr Ogof, South Wales, UK. (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Hayley Clark admiring Manjangul Lava Tube, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea (Photographer: Ed Waters)

Passage Near Hall of Thirty , Otter Hole, Forest of Dean, Wales, UK (Photogapher: Mark Burkey)

Thach Sinh Linh Dong, Quang Binh province, Vietnam (Photographer: Alan Jackson)

Deer Cave, Mulu, Borneo, Malaysia. (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Chris Blakeley, Mark Wright and Gina Moseley look at a note left in a cave in Greenland in 1960 by the original explorers (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Pristine formations in “Where Are All the Spiders?” chamber in Cueva Risco, Matienzo Spain. (Photographer: Paul Dold)

Preparing diving equipment on a platform above the first underwater tunnel 840m below the surface,San Agustin, Mexico (Photographer Jarvist Moore Frost)

Moel Fferna Bridge, North Wales, UK. (Photographer: Brendan Marris)

Greg Brock decending Ammonite Shaft,Sima Pumacocha, Peru (Photographer: Martin Holroyd)

Dr Gina Moseley weighs samples of calcite for dating in the clean lab at the University of Bristol (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Difeng (entrance shaft 220m), Sichuan Province, China. (Photographer: Gavin Newman)

Devils Eye Spring, Ginnie Springs, Florida, USA. (Photographer: Gavin Newman)

Madphil gazing at the impressive formations in Topdog, San Wan Dong, Houping, Wulong, Chongqing,China (Photographer: Josh Bratchley)

Temperature measurements are taken in the back of a cave in Greenland (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Cat Hulse and Luke Cafferty look at the worlds longest straw Wonder Cave, Mulu,Borneo,Malaysia (Photographer: Jeff Wade)

Diane Athurs in a remote grotto in Torca la Vaca, Matienzo Spain. (Photographer: Tom Howard)

Chris Blakeley and Gina Moseley collect samples of bone and feather from a cave in Greenland (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Surveying for surface-to-cave water tracing, Gibraltar (Photographer: Tim Atkinson)

Streamway in Rako Barzala, Magartu, Ethiopia, Africa (Photographer Bernard Lips)

Waterfall Shadow, OFD, South Wales, UK. (Photographer: Rob Eavis)

Valerie Middleton at the top entrance to Porcupine Cave, Mauritania, Africa (Photographer Tony Middleton)

Down stream main Streamway Krem sakwa, Megalaya, India (Photographer: Mark Burkey)

Soureces de la Douch, Haut-Languedoc, France. (Photographer: Chris Howes)

Nick Sharp searching for Porrhomma rosenhaueri in Ogof y Ci, Wales,UK (Photographer: Julian Carter)

Titan, Peak District, UK. (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Grotte de Gournier Streamway, Vercors, France. (Photographer: Stuart Gardiner)

John Whiteley floating in the entrance to Garfish Cave, Berry Head, Torbay, Devon, UK(Photographer: Pete Glanville)

Dr Gina Moseley collects samples of sediment from cricket muds in Racer Cave in Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia (Photographer: Robbie Shone)

Grotte de Pousselieres, Huat-Languedoc, France. (Photographer: Chris Howes)

Asfawossan Asrat in the chamber at the end of Goda Mea, Mechara, Ethiopia, Africa (Photographer John Gunn)

Diane Arthurs and Simon Cornhill squeezing through tight holes in Cueva Risco., Matienzo Spain. (Photographer: Paul Dold)

Boreham Cave, Yorkshire Dales, UK. (Photographer: Clive Westlake)