00:00One of the ways I've described it is it's not a club, it's a cult.
00:08For mine exploring, the drive is different for each individual.
00:14Seeing something that nobody else has seen, you know, getting to places nobody goes to, nobody's stupid enough to go to, I think.
00:20You can have ceilings collapsing, walls collapsing, you can fall through the floor.
00:27When we go down the mines, we're our own bosses, we do what we want.
00:34There's nobody telling us what to do and how to do it.
00:45I find it peaceful dangling in a mineshaft. You can just enjoy being there in that moment.
00:50I think the riskier it gets, the more pure that gets, until you are literally living second by second.
00:57My motto is adventure before dementia. If you can live your life to the full, why not?
01:13He's becoming one of our star players at the moment. He's sort of like got the bit between his teeth.
01:22Imagine what kind of relics and stuff you could find in there, you know?
01:26Something that hasn't been seen in hundreds of years.
01:29The mine ferret can squeeze through anywhere.
01:32As I'm getting older, I'm finding motivation harder and harder.
01:40But then the reward seems to get bigger and bigger.
01:44He's the glue that holds us all together. God knows what would happen if he wasn't there.
01:49The shared experience that we will have together is probably something that men have been doing for hundreds and hundreds of years.
01:59They'll go hunting together, they'll go out in a boat together, they'll go to war together.
02:03And it's a need, I think, to feel part of something.
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