VIDEO: Look back to when this Peak District disaster gripped the country
This vintage footage from British Pathé shows a 1950s news reel of when the Peaks Pothole disaster bought together hundreds of volunteers in 1959.
Oxford Student Neil Moss, 20, had ventured deep into the Pea Cavern at Castleton and mountain rescue teams, the RAF and navy personnel all came to the Peaks village in an attempt to rescue the young man, who was said to have delved far deeper than the public paths and become trapped in a crevice 1.5 miles from the surface and 1,000 feet deep.
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Hide AdThe search party reached him and came 'almost within touching distance' of him and stayed with the man for 14 hours, but sadly he was so badly lodged between the rocks that he died with rescuers nearby.