Kevin Bingham is Higher Education Lecturer in the Department of Service Industries at Barnsley College in the United Kingdom. He has published in the fields of leisure studies, sport and sociology.

'In Exploring the Natural Underground, Bingham examines the transformative power of dreaming, accessing, and exploring the hidden dimensions of our Earth. Deeply contemplative and philosophical, this book is about the power of hidden dimensions which inspire new ways of living, being, and imagining, together. It is an “existential leap” indeed.'María Alejandra Pérez, West Virginia University, USA

• 1 Introduction: First Encounters with the Kingdom of the Dark2 Descenders, Static Line and Some Methodological Considerations: Choosing ‘Tackle’ for the Job3 The Underside of Modernity4 The Poetics of Caving: Rediscovering Intimate Things5 Unsilencing Fear in the Natural Underground6 Life and Death Underground: Mortality, Immortality and Other Survival Strategies7 An Uncommercial Traveller’s Guide to the Art of Sublimation8 Journeying to the End and Back: Reaching a Choke

Kevin Bingham is Higher Education Lecturer in the Department of Service Industries at Barnsley College in the United Kingdom. He has published in the fields of leisure studies, sport and sociology.

'In Exploring the Natural Underground, Bingham examines the transformative power of dreaming, accessing, and exploring the hidden dimensions of our Earth. Deeply contemplative and philosophical, this book is about the power of hidden dimensions which inspire new ways of living, being, and imagining, together. It is an “existential leap” indeed.'María Alejandra Pérez, West Virginia University, USA

• 1 Introduction: First Encounters with the Kingdom of the Dark2 Descenders, Static Line and Some Methodological Considerations: Choosing ‘Tackle’ for the Job3 The Underside of Modernity4 The Poetics of Caving: Rediscovering Intimate Things5 Unsilencing Fear in the Natural Underground6 Life and Death Underground: Mortality, Immortality and Other Survival Strategies7 An Uncommercial Traveller’s Guide to the Art of Sublimation8 Journeying to the End and Back: Reaching a Choke

Kevin Bingham is Higher Education Lecturer in the Department of Service Industries at Barnsley College in the United Kingdom. He has published in the fields of leisure studies, sport and sociology.

'In Exploring the Natural Underground, Bingham examines the transformative power of dreaming, accessing, and exploring the hidden dimensions of our Earth. Deeply contemplative and philosophical, this book is about the power of hidden dimensions which inspire new ways of living, being, and imagining, together. It is an “existential leap” indeed.'María Alejandra Pérez, West Virginia University, USA

• 1 Introduction: First Encounters with the Kingdom of the Dark2 Descenders, Static Line and Some Methodological Considerations: Choosing ‘Tackle’ for the Job3 The Underside of Modernity4 The Poetics of Caving: Rediscovering Intimate Things5 Unsilencing Fear in the Natural Underground6 Life and Death Underground: Mortality, Immortality and Other Survival Strategies7 An Uncommercial Traveller’s Guide to the Art of Sublimation8 Journeying to the End and Back: Reaching a Choke