Near our house on the Derbyshire-Staffordshire border is a place called Wolf Edge. It is a raven-haunted slope set to the sounds of curlew song in high spring and I visit it regularly, not least because I imagine that within the deep peat soil there is some remembrance of the site’s eponymous predator, and the
from across the uk, as more and more volunteers agreed to help. in the end, over 300 people took part. once i started becoming more aware of my surroundings again, it became obvious to me that people had come from the forest of dean and then from the mendips, and then i started seeing faces i recognised from yorkshire and itjust became obvious that people were coming from all over the country. so, you recognised some of these people underground? i did, yes, yes, some people. there are a lot of faces that i didn t see but i did also see mates and comrades, shall we say. all the way through the rescue. and could you start to appreciate at that point just the effort that people had made to help? yes. yeah, yeah. i felt a little bit guilty at one stage, i must admit, and a whole lot of gratitude. george effectively rescued himself. so, if in his head he trusts us and he wants it and he knows he can do it, then the rescue teams will come together and make it happen.
in the end, over 300 people took part. once i started becoming more aware of my surroundings again, it became obvious to me that people had come from the forest of dean and then from the mendips, and then i started seeing faces i recognised from yorkshire and it just became obvious that people were coming from all over the country. so, you recognised some of these people underground? i did, yes, yes, some people. there are a lot of faces that i didn t see but i did also see mates and comrades, shall we say. all the way through the rescue. and could you start to appreciate at that point just the effort that people had made to help? yes. yeah, yeah. i felt a little bit guilty at one stage, i must admit, and a whole lot of gratitude. george effectively rescued himself. he trusts us and he knows he can do it so the rescue teams will come together and make it happen.
them so they are still in the cave somewhere. the rescue had started on a saturday afternoon. by sunday, teams were arriving from across the uk, as more and more volunteers agreed to help. in the end, over 300 people took part. once i started becoming more aware of my surroundings again, it became obvious to me that people had come from the forest of dean and then from the mendips, and then i started seeing faces i recognised from yorkshire and itjust became obvious that people were coming from all over the country. so, you recognised some of these people underground? i did, yes, yes, some people. there are a lot of faces that i didn t see but i did also see mates and comrades, shall we say. all the way through the rescue. and could you start to appreciate at that point just the effort that people had made to help? yes. yeah, yeah. i felt a little bit guilty at one stage, i must admit, and a whole lot of gratitude. george effectively rescued himself. so, if in his head he trusts us