Read for my thoughts below !
Thank you to my sister, Georgia for helping me out with some of the shots on this one. 🙂
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I might disable the comment section. It is due to my own fear that I will be corrected on things I am already acutely aware of, but also general scrutiny. I created this video for fun and general commentary only.
It took 3 weeks to make and if I could do it again, I would;
1) hold the mic to my face instead of having it nestling on my clothing for better sound in the beginning
2) honed down on where I got my statistic of ’12’ from for callouts per year. I spoke to cave rescue a few months prior to this, and they mentioned how they had 12 callouts a year, avarage. However, this could have been for over the pandemic period, so this number might actually be wrong. Futhermore, this might even be just in Derbyshire. My apolagies.
Clarifications:
1) The people who make cave death videos have a deserved space on the internet, I’m not telling you to not watch them, any creator that makes this content can feel free to contact me and ask me questions. I’m here to help.
2) Whilst I wanted to (and even filmed) explaining how the man died from the second video, I felt that would be too alarming for the family and friends, who I know might watch this video. I consequently cut it out.
3) nice to be back:) I’ll take another 2 week(ish) break because I’ve got a lot to work on!
Thanks for understanding that I needed a break, because I had so much to do! In this time I have finished and released my next book, created an hour long video essay, revised for a big test on Radon in caves, and have a 2 week work experience at the BBC! 🙂
00:00 Introduction
01:39 Death
04:05 A critique (John Jones)
19:54 Caving GONE WRONG
33:03 The Ugly
43:59 A pause to rest our feet
45:16 Setting an example.
53:02 Virality of Fear, Reality of tradegy.
56:29 What Caving can bring
58:52 A final send-off
seriously, check out Sid Perou’s channel!
https://m.youtube.com/c/Cavingcameraman
Caveman hikes is also a channel that you will hate to watch, but goddamnit, you won’t be able to look away!
https://m.youtube.com/c/CalvinHikes
Thanks to British Pathe for the cave rescue clips
the legend presenter almost getting stuck:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=orYtXy1JF74
“Walking Through Ground-Poems of healing in the Peak District and beyond”
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“The Fragile Cave: Poems Inspired by the Cavers and Caves of Britain”
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I want to go caving with Elise!! You're such a good presenter 👏
My only issue is the lack of comic sans warning, great video, something that needed to be mentioned and you're the perfect person for it
often wondered if youtubers ,tiktokers ect who make make money from videos of there activates in some cases a a living ,do the health and safety laws apply to them ?
I remember hearing about the John Jones incident when it happened. It terrified me and gave me the impression that that sort of caving (squeezing) was reckless. Then, I found this and other caving channels, and it completely changed my perception. Yeah, it's dangerous, but so is anything. It's probably not as dangerous as driving, and (like driving) there are precautions you take to counter the dangers. I also got to see the payoff, such as the beauty, community and sense of accomplishment. I wish this side of caving could be viewed more by the general public.
Only Elise can make me watch an hour long video about caving. Such good content
My first exposure to caving was the nutty putty video, it scared me a bit ngl. However, after watching your videos, I realised caving can be done safely and it seems fun though it's not something I'm particularly interested in doing I do have a bigger appreciation of it now. (I mean tight space caving; I love to go to big caves to explore)
I think you filled this video with sound and well-worded arguments, and I was interested and entertained from start to finish.
Perhaps it's because overly dramatic videos are not my thing in the first place, but I was really pleasantly surprised by your example; using Crimewatch footage and actually visiting the location gave the segment a sort of documentary-like feel that I really enjoyed.
Thank you for the effort you've put into this unusually long (for you) video! 🙂
It's not usually scary unless you blag one of your mates along like Tom Scott, and he goes all Allan Partridge
The only cave death ive ever heard of was John Jones..
Great to see you back!
"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." —Robert Kiyosaki
Great video, Elise. I have watched some of the "cave death" videos on occasion and in the future, I will consider what you've offered here, before or while watching such videos. Great job as always! Your content continues to set a high standard!
I've seen a lot of the 'Caving Gone Wrong' videos in recent weeks and I'll admit it scared me to the point where I said to myself that I would never dare to try caving at all.
In one hour you have reversed this fear and helped fix the psychological damage caused by clickbait disaster videos. Thank you 🙂
I’ve done the Wild Cave Tour @ Mammoth Cave in KY. It was a six hour guided tour. We wore knee pads & helmets w lights. Although I know it’s very scary for some, you are much safer in a cave than you are on, say, a hike to the summit of a mountain.
It was the nutty putty cave stuff that truly terrified me a while back, I mean when I leave this world Id rather be thrown to the hippos, silverbacks or basically anything here in Australia but I'm not going out via cave, watching people deep underground squirm thru cracks for fun makes me physically ill