JUNE 1994, DR_ROB HEATH PHD. It is with deep xegret that I have to report the death of "Rob" Heath on Monday 18th Apait. An inguential club member $0x a good number of years, Rob gave a tot to C.C.P.C, becoming the youngest chub officer ever. I can honestly say that Rob was the most decent and takented person I have even met, and his determination was kegendary. I can see him now carrying the entire stock of fadders up to Gaping Gill on his pack bxame or a solo fadder trip down (and back up!) the main shagt, white fesser mortals used easier methods. I'm sure Tony with vouch fox the effort put into "the dig" Long before the intnxaduction of explosives to the club In addition to his incredible caving abi£ity, he was a tafented musician and academic. Having gained a $inst class honours in Biochemistry, he took a PHD whike neseanching into Muktiple Sefenois gon the Health Seavice He went on to research into new daugs for Amersham Intexnationat. T pexsonatty have Lost a veay good $aiend and society has Lost a gneat asset. Our thoughts must 90 out to Jane and the gings. Ratph J. Brian Edmonds. After some delicate negotiations by Ralph, he managed to arrange access for himself, Sharon, Ross and myself for a trip into Dave Nixons current project on New Rake. On a very cold and windy sunday we meet up at Rowter farm after Ralph and Sharon had been to fetch the keys. We paid our fees to the farmers wife and got changed in a galé that felt as if it had just come off the polar ice-cap. Once having escaped from the large maraudering geese in the farm yard we found the recently re-capped shaft on the line of hummocks marking New Rake. The letters J.H. were drawn in the concrete, relating to the shafts proper name, rather than the erroneous "T.S.U." inscription that it was known by previously. The heavy steel lid wouldn’t stay open in the strong wind, but kep blowing onto us as we looked down the shaft - an ominous sight. The first pitch is about 160’ deep, starting off as a generous oval of ginging, into solid rock, and then into open slope on the vein. Stacked deads abound, but this pitch is "relatively" clean. There are a few minor rub points, and a spit for a rebelay about halfway down. The landing is on a small debris cone. To the west is a short steep scramble to a cartgate, but to the east a more gentle slope again leads to the same cartgate About six feet short of the first pool on the left (north) wall are the letters "A " and other carvings in white vein material probably Bougtes or Heavy Spar - BaSo4 ). Similar carvings are found in Peaks Far Sump Extensions. The cartgate continues under hanging death chokes ( held up only by imagination.... }, over flooded shafts in the floor and heaps of rubble, and through a series of forepoled digs through collapsed areas. The floor of the cartgate is at least in part false, and well water logged... Eventually a cascade can be heard ahead as the water falls into an unflooded shaft. Traverse over this one and the next two holes in the floor. The passage now climbs above the cartgate level, over deads, into a narrower vein slopes for a short way, followed by an easy descent over well stacked deads to rejoin the cartgate as a crawl. The second pitch is soon reached. The take off is froma dodgey heap of loose, unstable debris hat funnels down to the pitch. A short bolt traverse leads to a y" hang and a drop with two deviations, a rebelay and two further deviations to a large ledge and rebelay, with a third drop onto another cone of debris. This whole pitch is very loose and unstable - take great care of those below you. Down to the west the streamway is met in a low crawl, but to the east the vein opens out into a large cavity - " The Workshop ". The Workshop appears to be a solution bedding cavity enlarged by T’Owd Man. It contains many old artifacts and interesting dry- stone walled features. There are several apparent ways on including a rectangular climbing shaft and a small round pit in the floor with a stream at the bottom, The way on is past the round hole into a short crawl with a stream, which loops around to the head of the big pitch - a large natural shaft called Leviathan. 2 tg WERULS TATERS SRI per TITTIES INS pens Tavks WSL, 28 WL se NOWLISS QHISNBIAT IWIN ee wane a34Nt S2KE NO SeHBIG 25019 ShNBAIY ANY SACD Lowa 397 GasaTaY poaat a9 A Clem. WAL NI Lid ny =— Nonwinsa pYz plaLuoKs Houd 1 Swouwinga AT -“UDLIg PE Sonws one dOHSINM 3 NOT suai une: SuIWW AD G2VILTW ALIAVD TwunayN ,goHSmyIM BH wood LHenw.s + KUTagzy '39G27 OL SMOLLWIASG % % AVISDSY ‘SHOLVIAZA XT I BIL Re a Eu, saistuy NI Jong 45) 30539 ,F pools asm yan 201 VID Gens Gacemy | TN NO t aves