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David Heap

David (Dave) Heap (14 March 1941 to 23 February 1995) was largely responsible for the opening up and development of caving and potholing in Northern Norway in the 1960s and 1970s. He led a number of speleological expeditions not only to Norway but the French Pyrenees and to Greece. He was the author of the now classic caving book ''Potholing Beneath the Northern Pennines''.

Professionally, after teaching history at Ermysted's Grammar in Skipton, he took a history lectureship at the University of Adelaide and extended his caving experience from the Yorkshire Dales to the Nullarbor region and Tasmania. After a year he returned to the UK and quickly progressed to Headmaster of a succession of prestigious secondary schools, notably William Hulme's Grammar, Manchester, Handsworth Grammar, Birmingham and Edward VII Grammar, Lytham St Annes.

The Station Master's House at Ribblehead became the David Heap Memorial Centre in 1999. Provided by Wikipedia