AFTER a nationwide search for people with unusual skills, Llechwedd Slate Caverns has successfully recruited two dangermen to work on its pioneering new visitor experience.

Iago Morgan Jones and Keirren Jones, both from Gwynedd, will play a key role in Llechwedd’s exciting new deep mine tour, which opens in March 2016.

The dangermen recruits, who speak Welsh and English, are circus-trained and specialists in aerial acrobatics.

Iago is a director at the Cimera Circus, a social enterprise company based in Caernarfon. Keirren is a former army gunner who served in Afghanistan and east Africa before joining Cimera and training in trapeze and aerial stunts.

Both say they are delighted with their highly unusual roles.

As Llechwedd’s dangermen they will work deep underground but at substantial height – up to 150 foot – above the mine’s floor level.

Llechwedd is being tight-lipped about the precise details of the new attraction, but says that it will feature extraordinary light projections, enhanced reality technology and explosive special effects which will transport visitors to ‘another time and place’.

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