This is a short film of cavers in Upper Wharfedale filmed near the entrance to a cave, possibly Beck Head Stream Cave, where it appears that there might have been a recent fatality.  Possibly that at Cote Gill Pot, part of the Gaping Gill System, where Richard Marvel and John Staniforth died of CO poisoning as the result of using high explosives in Oct 1979. The film begins showing a stream of water running down some rocks next to a sign pinned against a rock which states: “Upper Wharfedale...

This is a short film of cavers in Upper Wharfedale filmed near the entrance to a cave, possibly Beck Head Stream Cave, where it appears that there might have been a recent fatality.  Possibly that at Cote Gill Pot, part of the Gaping Gill System, where Richard Marvel and John Staniforth died of CO poisoning as the result of using high explosives in Oct 1979. The film begins showing a stream of water running down some rocks next to a sign pinned against a rock which states: “Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue.  Toxic fumes do not enter. “Coroner’s instructions.”  Below the notice an iron grid has been placed over the hole.  Nearby there are flowers, presumably to mark a recent death.  A potholer removes the grid, and another emerges from the hole.  A group of potholers stand at the entrance to the hole and one is lowered down.  They look at the flowers and a woman, looking upset, takes a photo.  Nearby is an ambulance jeep.  One of the men, a ginger headed man with a beard, talks on a phone.  Now looking more relaxed they have some tea and buns.  The film finishes with a potholer emerging from the hole preceded by a plastic bottle pulled up by a rope.