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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxOscar Hackett Neil Moss was an Oxford undergraduate who loved sports and exploring.One of his passions was cave diving, and on March 22, 1959, Neil, as he was known, joined a group from the British Speleological Association on an expedition deep under the grounds of Derbyshire.The eight cavers were intending to explore a narrow passage in Stalagmite Chamber in Peak Cavern, one of England's best known cave systems.

The new passage had been discovered just two weeks before.That fateful Sunday, the explorers crawled their way through muddy passages until they came to a chamber some 1,000ft below ground.

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