Four cavers exploring a maze of old chalk mine tunnels 70ft below ground.

---

A cavern 70 feet below the streets of Reading where a network of 18th and 19th century chalk mines has been discovered There has been a history of subsidence in the town but until now there were only believed to be 3 mines to worry about Cavers pictured have now mapped 30 mines and miles of linking passages sparking a row over who is responsible for shoring up the many areas where the old mining works are crumbling away beneath modern homes Pictured is Emmer Green South Mine

---

Size: 5130px × 3407px
Location: Emmer Green South Mine; Reading; england; uk; great britain; europe;
Photo credit: © Roger Bamber / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 4, adults, adventure, britain, cave, cavern, cavers, caving, chalk, challenge, challenging, chamber, claustrophobic, constricted, danger, dangerous, dark, darkness, deep, dirt, discovery, emmer, enclosed, england, equipment, europe, experience, exploration, explore, explorer, exploring, extreme, great, green, group, hard, hardhats, hats, hazardous, headlamp, headlamps, helmet, hobby, industrial, industry, lamp, leisure, lighting, men, mines, mining, passage, passtime, people, pothole, potholing, protection, reading, risk, rocks, safety, soil, south, speleologist, spelunk, spelunking, sport, spotlights, subterranean, team, thrill, togetherness, torches, tunnel, uk, underground, underworld, unknown, woman, zoom1