April 28, 2010 – 10:05 am
On espeleobloc you can see outstanding videos (about half hour length) of polish arctic speleo (!) expedition from 2005. The pictures are just breathtaking!
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The spring J2 expedition was attended by 14 people (third of them from Poland). The main aim of the expedition was to join “Last Bash” (found in 2005) cave to the J2 system. Finally, the cave joined J2 at -900m (-685m from the surface). This way the third underground camp can reached in one day [...]
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April 23, 2010 – 11:39 pm
Between 2010 23rd of February and 18th of March, a group of seven polish cavers (Sekcji Grotołazów Wrocław club) visited the mighty Arabica massif, namely the PL-1 cave, which was previviously discovered by them. In the cave they reached -620m depth, where a narrow fissure with outstanding draft stopped them. After five summer edxpeditions, this [...]
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Novosibirsk cavers had their expedition in Altay mountains between 2010.3.13-20. The main event was cave diving at the bottom of Altayskaya cave (-240m depth ,4175m length). Unfortunately the siphon quickly became impassable at -2m. Many other exploration activites were carried out like climbing and digging. original info here
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April 19, 2010 – 11:11 am
Balkan cavers meeting “Jasen ’2010” was held near Belitsa village, FYR of Macedonia from 8 to 11 April 2010. It was organized by Macedonian federation of speleology, speleo club “Ursus speleos» Skopje, with the support of the Public Enterprise for Management and Protection of the Multipurpose Area Jasen – area (covering the river Treska and [...]
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Here you can see a video by ZAPESPELEO, about the exploration of Piedras Verdes cave in Picos de Europa, Spain, during the breaktrough to -1100m in 2006.
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Again Ellis basin congrtulations! “Cavers have discovered what is believed to be New Zealand’s first cave system more than 1km deep in a mountain west of Nelson. The team of three cavers, Kieran McKay, Aaron Gillespie and Troy Watson, made the connection between two known caves in the Ellis Basin, on Mt Arthur in Kahurangi [...]
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In April 2010, fourteen Canadian and six British cavers visited Castleguard Cave, Canada’s longest at 20km, on the third phase of a three-year project to dive the sump at the end of Boon’s Blunder. Last year’s effort penetrated 500m into the sump without reaching an airspace. After a 20km ski including crossing a glacier, diving [...]
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Here you can read about an expedition of ten cavers to the deepest cave in New Zealand, the Ellis Basin Cave system, Mt Arthur, Kahurangi National Park. The Expedition started on January 9th and finished on 31st January 2010. The main goal of NZ Extreme Caving Team is to is to discover and map the [...]
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The Romanian Speleological Federation with the support of the Balkan Speleological Union organizes the 4th edition of Balkan Cavers Camp between 15th -18th July 2010 in Padis – Natural Park Apuseni, Bihor Mountains, administrative jurisdiction of Pietroasa village, Bihor County. During the Balkan Camp there will also take place an International Cave Rescue Excercise at [...]
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