Hidden Earth 2009
Hidden Earth is the UK’s annual caving conference, hosted by the British Cave Research Association and the British Caving Association for the benefit of all cavers.
Hidden Earth 2009 will be held from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 September 2009 at Churchill Community School in North Somerset. The village of Churchill is located south-west [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Hidden Earth 2009
August 28, 2009 – 12:28 pm
International Caving Expedition “Maja Arapit’2009″ – Albania
August 27, 2009 – 8:46 am
During the expedition was surveyed 1313 м. of new passages. Over 0,5 km of old passage was remmaped. The actual length of the cave Maja Arapit (after this expedition) grow from 1224 m to 2537 m. The depth is 243 m where the highest point is + 217 and the lowest one is – 26 [...]
CAVEX expedition in Krubera-Voronja
August 26, 2009 – 10:50 pm
The CAVEX expedition ended in Western Caucasus, Krubera cave. It was held from 2009 July 12 to Aug 5, and composed of 24 cavers from spain and russia. For the upcoming expeditions, they prepared the ground (rigging,camps,etc..), and worked to enlarge a bypass of Kvitochka siphon (-1980m), which is currently not possible to pass by [...]
Spain – Sistema del Mortillano extended to 114 km
August 24, 2009 – 7:06 pm
On Monday August 10, 2009 was achieved something that few years ago would have seemed utopian: to make the Mortillano system became more developed cave in Spain. 114 km of galleries and 950 meters deep (and growing …) are the result of nearly five decades of work with people from many different clubs and venues.
Original [...]
Italian discovery in the Dolomites
August 24, 2009 – 6:09 pm
News of Francesco Sauro
The night between 22 and 23 August 2009, four speleogist (Salogni Marco, Mauro Bordin, Omar Dog, Francesco Sauro) have finally achieved the much desired junction between the PE10 (23 km, -971) and Grotta Isabella (5 km , -340) in the National Park of the Belluno Dolomites.
At the junction have worked many caving, [...]
British exploration in Picos de Europa
August 24, 2009 – 5:54 pm
You can read a quite fancy article about british exploration in Asopladeru la Texa cave system with the beautifoul pictures of Robbie Shone. The expedition was held by Oxford University Caving Club (OUCC) in Picos de Europa, Spain.
See the article here…
Expedition Pozo Azul 2009
August 6, 2009 – 2:51 am
The exploration work was focused on the “2nd Sump”, where in May last year the end of the line was left at 4.020m /-41m from 2nd sump base by the german divers Reinhard Buchaly and Markus Schieritz.
This 2009 expedition had three exploration pushes. The first one, on July 17, by cave divers John Volanthen (CDG) [...]
Kacna Jama 2009
August 6, 2009 – 2:16 am
An international expedition of 31 czech and 9 hungarian cavers discovered approximately 1km of new passage in Kacna Jama, Slovenia. The new parts were discovered by diving in the final part of the cave, which was a quite complicated task, because the materials had to be transported trough the 200m deep entrance pitch, and after [...]
Explo 2009 – Durmitor
August 5, 2009 – 7:10 am
Belgian group of cavers explored Bandijerna cave in Durmitor, Montenegro in two-week expedition. A new cave was also found named ‘Internal Flysch’ which is currently -400m, and going… some cavers are still working on exploration.
More here…
British cavers explore a new -553 m deep cave in Crete
August 5, 2009 – 7:07 am
British cavers of Sheffield University Speleology Society (SUSS) pushes Colossus Cave in Crete to -553m. They started working in the are in 2005 and since then they discovered 350 new caves, in Mavri Laki region of the island’s White Mountains. Now they extended their discoveries in Colossus cave from -230m to -553m in an expedition [...]