Gaping Gill via Dihedral and Main chamber winch

A lovely introduction to the Gaping gill winch meet. I went down last and it was quite hard to hear the rope free call when it came, luckily Matt had a whistle. There were four deviations before first rebelay at the ledge, I swung about for a bit and waved to people coming up and down the winch while Matt took some photos. Matt went down and I couldn’t hear his rope free, and he for some reason didn’t use his whistle. So, I was stuck waiting for probably 10-15 minutes until Pete Sykes came up the winch and halfway up shouted to me that Matt was down.

The main chamber looks magnificent all lit up, and a member of the public got a nice video of me descending the final rebelay, which I got them to airdrop to me while in the cave! The commentary was funny as they were pretending it was their mate coming down the rope to send to his wife to scare her. We wandered around and took some photos and then got winched back up.