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Caving and potholing

On our thoroughly satellite mapped world, opportunities to set foot where no-one has ever been before, is the essential lure of caving. To be able to fulfil this ambition almost literally on your doorstep spells adventure of a unique kind, an outdoor pursuit that uses many other skills - camping, mountaineering, orienteering, diving - as tools of the trade. It is the ultimate 'wild sport'.
Compared to its neighbours, Scotland is not blessed with plentiful caverns but there are limestone caves to provide thrills and others still remain to be discovered. Caving - or 'speleology' to give it its proper title- allows for plenty of intellectual exercise too. Few Scottish caves have been studied properly before.

This shows a caver (David Warren) in the streamway of Uamh an Claonaite (Cave of the Sloping Rock), Assynt, Sutherland.

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Want to get started?

There are a few caving clubs in Scotland. The premier organisation is the Grampian Speleological Group, based in Edinburgh but with a National membership. Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities also have clubs but for insurance purposes these are limited to students, staff and graduates.

The G.S.G welcomes beginners over the age of 18, and provide trips as 'tasters' before signing up new members. Simply contact them on the emails below. There are no full-time commercial caving ventures in Scotland.

This is Dr Tim Lawson in The Grotto in Uamh an Ard Achadh (High Pasture Cave) near Torrin, Isle of Skye.

Administrative Bodies ...

The British Caving Association

The Grampian Speleological Group

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