Jim Eyre (caver)

[1] In 1946 in Lancaster, Eyre helped to found the Red Rose Cave and Pot Hole Club, where he was prominent in the earliest exploration of the Ease Gill Caverns.

[2] Eyre was born in Kent, and his family moved to Lancaster while he was young.

Half a dozen other books have followed, including Race Against Time: A History of the Cave Rescue Organisation about the team based in Clapham, North Yorkshire.

[3] Eyre was well known as an active member of the Cave Rescue Organisation, based in North Yorkshire, and he took a major role during the Mossdale Caverns tragedy.

[1] The Cave Explorers, 1981 Race Against Time: A History of the Cave Rescue Organisation, 1988 The Ease Gill System: Forty Years of Exploration, 1989 It's Only a Game, 2004 The Game Goes On, 2009[5]