Hidden Earth 2025

Return to Aquamole

60 minute Film|Keith Edwards

Abstract

This is the story of legendary caver diver, Geoff Yeadon’s return to cave diving after being retired from it for 26 years.

A 10 minute edit of Return to Aquamole won the video salon at Hidden Earth in 2024 and the complete film was premiered in the Underground Session at the Kendal Mountain Festival on Friday 22nd November 2024.
In 1974, Geoff was the diver first to pass the 168 metre sump upstream from Rowten Pot. He discovered the impressive 40 metre high Aquamole Aven which was connected to the surface in June 2002.

A trip beginning by descending Aquamole Pot to exit at Valley Entrance is now a classic through trip for cave divers and is considered to be a somewhat of a right of passage for the new generation of underwater cave explorers.

In spite of his underground discoveries in Kingsdale Valley it was a trip that Geoff Yeadon had never done. However, on Sunday the 6th August 2023, Geoff supported by a team of over 20 cavers and cave divers, was persuaded out of retirement to complete for the first time this classic descent and cave dive.

During this session, the story of how the film was made will be told by the cavers responsible for making it. Following this, the full film will be screened.