See if you can rig up some sort of tripod so that we can hang the cooking pot over the fire.
Many well-to-do middle peasants have strong feelings against co-operation, the worst among them sell off their means of production, spirit their money away, or rig up fake co-operatives, and a few even gang up with landlords and rich peasants.
It can take as long as eight days to rig up rope ladders and to establish supply bases before a descent can be made into a very deep cave.