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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 -367m and the length extended to 3,218m (the 14^th longest in Thailand).  This cave still has many leads, before above and below Fitch Pitch.  The other two promising leads found in 2009, Tham Nam Tok Nam Poen and Tham Huai Poen, where explored and surveyed down to their terminal sumps.  Our knowledge of the topography of the area was improved and we confirmed that the limestone extends at least 17km from Tham Pha Daeng in the north to Tham Din Neao in the south.  Just to keep us interested and to encourage a return trip Tham Champi, Tham Pon and Tham Wa were located, but not fully explored.  There are still a lot of dolines, many with sinking streams, that we haven’t looked at yet.”

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