Here you can find an interesting article about SC Avalon ’s expedition to the Anialarra area at Pyrenees, which aim was to search for potential new entrances. The reason why they choose this season was that they wanted to sort out, which entrances are promising (draft blowing out). Because on average only 1 out of [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
New entrance to Gouffre Berger
March 29, 2010 – 9:47 am
Cedric Lachat, climber and caver disovered a new entrance to Gouffre Berger, while get lost in the High Plateau Vercors, searching for the original entrance. The entrance leads to a series of large wells, P110,P80,P15m,P30, a few more jumps and the cave lead to a junction to Berger’s Gallery of the Mud (which is upstream [...]
Thailand’s Deepest Cave Now Even Deeper
March 27, 2010 – 8:51 am
In February 2010 the Shepton Mallet Caving Club returned to Ban Mani Phruk in the north of Nan province to continue exploration of Tham Pha Phueng and other caves in this area.
“After nine days up on the mountain we returned to Lom Sak after another very successful expedition. Tham Pha Phueng had been deepened to [...]
Expedition in Papua
March 26, 2010 – 12:34 am
After 6 weeks, we are back from our international caving expedition in Papoua. It was a great succes ! we explore more than 15 km of new caves and galeries, discover incredible underground passages and most of all, we connected and push 2 big caves, by diving several sumps. This way we discover the second [...]
V5 – 20km
March 23, 2010 – 9:34 am
For one week in the middle of february, hungarian cavers held their traditional winter camp in V5 cave, Padis, Transylvania. The eight participants constructed the 3rd underground camp, which is quite far away from the entrance. With climbing chimnies & bypassing lakes the group discovered & surveyed 1km of new passages, including cross-sections with dimensions [...]
Petition of Bulgarian Federation of Speleology
March 22, 2010 – 12:45 am
Dear Collegues,
The Bulgarian Cavers appreciate your interest in the conservation of
Bulgarian caves.Could you please consider our point of view?
Here is the text of the petition of Bulgarian Federation of Speleology for
approval the Cave protection draft form Bulgarian Parliament
Link to the petition: http://bgpetition.com/caveprotectiondraft/index.html
Yours sincerely,
Alexey Zhalov
Vice president of Bulgarian Federation of Speleology
The English version of the Hellenic Speleo. Society e-magazine
March 18, 2010 – 7:10 am
The English version of the official e-magazine of the Hellenic Speleological Society -H.S.S.- (www.ese.edu.gr) has been released!
You can download it from this particular link: http://www.ese.edu.gr/media/stalaktites/stalaktites08_en.pdf
Comments are more than welcome!
STALAKTITES One more issue of the official e-Magazine of Hellenic Speleological Society is ready. This issue is very important to us because it is [...]
New -1000m deep cave in Abkhazia
March 17, 2010 – 4:43 am
Between 28th of February, and 11th of March, a group of nine Moscow-based cavers worked in Moskovskaya cave, Gagra Range of Araica, Abkhazia. After digging the entrance out of 6m of snow, the group set camp at -600m. After bypassing a narrow fissure at the old bottom of the cave (-980m), the team discovered 400m [...]
Another km in Sisma
March 16, 2010 – 9:46 am
In the middle of february, a group of hungarian cavers returned to Abisso Sisma, Canin, Italy. After successfull exploration in January, they discovered & surveyed another 925m of new passages during the 3 days spent underground. The new passage is a side-branch (towards south-east) from the big fissure which goes in the direction of Sella [...]
Winter trip to the caves of Arkhangelsk
March 13, 2010 – 7:57 am
Here you can read about the extraorindary skiing trip of russian cavers to the caves of Arkhangelsk in -40 degrees (city close to the white sea !!!).