Tempest - The Tempest Diaries
Joel
On what would really turn out to be our last day in Tempest, two groups went down once more - an intense pushing group and some tourists, me, Lizzie, and Ely attempted to bash a bigger hole to get into the rift at the bottom of Tomb Raider, achieving virtually nothing after an hour of work and deciding once again to drop in without SRT kits, we were joined by Merryn and the skeleton team squeezed in to survey the rift. This sadly crapped out ion chokes at both ends of the rift and along a continuation to the right, but we surveyed and got some good photos before returning out the hole to discover mildly hypothermic Tom waiting for us in his gimp poncho like some frozen wizard. Concluding that despite our best efforts the cave was going nowhere. We de-rigged the cave in stages and left all the rope at fishface. Defeated but content, we retreated to Top Camp. [TOPO TO BE SCANNED AND UPLOADED]