Stump Cross Cavern Sleep Over

Sleepover 50 feet underground to help illuminate Stump Cross Caverns.
The owners of a Yorkshire tourist attraction, Stump Cross Caverns, are inviting people for a ‘sleepover’ 50 feet underground to raise awareness of their Crowdfunding campaign to help illuminate the caverns.

Owner, Lisa Bowerman (aka the Cavewoman) will be joined by 10 people on Friday 25 November 2022 as they wrap up warm and don their sleeping bags for a night in the 7-degree caves.

The sleepover celebrates the 105-day challenge by Geoffrey Workman who slept down the caves to much fanfare in 1963, and set a world record for the longest stay underground. Pathe News covered the story at the time, and Geffrey enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame.

Lisa and her partner, Nick Markham, slept down the caves for a total of 105 hours in 2021, enduring the cold and damp, and constant dripping in the vast cave system. This was all to raise awareness about their Crowdfunder campaign to win a Pateley Bridge apartment to help install specialist lighting to preserve the caves for generations to come.