Year 2009 in Valbona -2 Polish expeditions in Albania
This year we went to Valbona as a bigger team than before – ten speleologists, and five people who support our actions in the mountains. We chose a different route to travel – tested in May, the route through Kosovo. It takes less time, but unfortunately is [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Year 2009 in Valbona -2 Polish expeditions in Albania
January 29, 2010 – 3:06 pm
PHOTO COMPETITION “THE CAVES AND WE”
January 27, 2010 – 9:45 am
PHOTO COMPETITION “THE CAVES AND WE”
Organized by SC”Prista”- Russe, Bulgaria
The third photo concurs “The Caves and we” organized by Speleo Club “ Prista” Rousse, Bulgaria finished! It the competition take part 51 cave photographers from 7 countries ( Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova and Bulgaria) who present 242 works in two sections: “People in [...]
Hang Son Doong
January 25, 2010 – 10:49 am
Here you can see some pictures from Hang Son Doong, the cave which contains the world’s biggest known gallery, which is 5km long, and has an average width of 100m, but in some parts the cross-section also reach 200×150m. There are also some 70m high stals…
New Zealand’s longest cave getting longer
January 21, 2010 – 4:07 pm
Exploration at Bulmer Cavern lasted 10 days from December 28, with 20 cavers from Whangarei to Dunedin camping at Bulmer Lake and making the long day trips into the cave to find and explore the new passages. This was the 20th consecutive “New Year” expedition to the cave. The result is 2km of new passages, [...]
Winter camp in Khakassia
January 20, 2010 – 7:43 am
From 30 December to 7 January in the village of Malaya Sye (Khakassia,Central Siberia) was held the speleocamp of 30 cavers from Krasnoyarsk (CCS, GCS, FAS), Abakan and even Yekaterinburg. Despite a steady -40 C (!!!) frost three tasks were accomplished: topographical surveying, and diving in siphons, in the cave of Pandora’s Box, and [...]
Hungarian exploration in Canin
January 18, 2010 – 1:51 pm
Between January 2 and 15, a group of hungarian caves visited the Canin massif, Italy. The target of the exploration was the recently discovered parts in Abisso Sisma, which joined the Fonda-Laricetto system two years ago. During the internal camp, which lasted for ten days, 1600m of new passages were discovered and surveyed, mainly high [...]
Romanian-French speleological expedition to Laos
January 17, 2010 – 11:01 pm
A team of 11 speleologists and divers, four Romanians and seven French, led by Tudor Marin, technical manager of the Romanian Speleology Federation (FRS), will take part between January 15 and February 8, in an expedition to Lao Republic, area considered to be ‘one of the last virgin places on earth in the field of [...]
The expedition “Zdravkovets-2010” ended sucessfully
January 14, 2010 – 10:18 am
Machanov Trap Cave become 4 km long!
Reported by Alexey Zhalov
The Machanov Trap Cave is located 0,5 km W of Zdravkovets vill. , Gabrovo distr. in the area called Bucheto, NW part of Strazhata Plateau, Middle Predbalkan, Bulgaria.
It is formed in the contact zone between Lower Cretaceous sandstone and mergels [...]
Piani Eterni – winter exploration
January 13, 2010 – 6:26 am
Here you can read about the winter camp held in Piani Eterni system, in the Dolomites, Italy. The camp lasted from December 26 to January 8 , with a total number of 13 person inside (each person staying 4-5 days inside). The results are 2,5km of newly discovered passages includig a 80m deep pitch.
Winter camp in W Le Donne
January 11, 2010 – 9:14 pm
Here you can read about the winter camp held in Monte Grigna, in Abisso W Le Donne (11km,-1196m). The expedition discovered and surveyed 770m of new passages. Unfortunately the team was not able to get deeper than around -1100m in the collector at the bottom, because of large amount of water. The expedition lasted from [...]