Neil Moss incident

Neil Moss
Born(1938-07-28)28 July 1938
Died24 March 1959(1959-03-24) (aged 20)
Peak Cavern, Derbyshire, England
Cause of deathHypercapnia
Burial placeMoss Chamber, Peak Cavern
EducationBalliol College, Oxford University

Oscar Hackett Neil Moss (28 July 1938 – 24 March 1959) was a British student who died in a caving accident. A twenty-year-old undergraduate studying philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, Moss became jammed underground, 1,000 feet (300 m) from the entrance, after descending a narrow unexplored shaft in Peak Cavern, a famous cave system in Castleton in Derbyshire, on 22 March 1959.

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