During the weekend of May 22-23, an international team attempted to dive trough the 3rd siphon of Grotta di Locoli, which can be found in Sardega. The attempt was successfull, the 3rd siphon, which waited for 22 years to pass, was lead to air filled passage after 1700 m of length, and 90m of depth [...]
Davorjevo Brezno – Kozina (Hrpelje), SLO
Together with the Jamarsko Drustvo Herpelje Kozina, the CGEB has found and explored a new vertical cave in the Classical Karst, just beyond the Italian-Slovenjan border. The cave, 200 m deep and almost a kilometer long, has the biggest drop of 60 m, and includes several large [...]
100th Anniversary of the Cave Exploration Society Ljubljana (”Drustvo za raziskovanje jam Ljubljana (DZRJL)”). The CES Ljubljana was founded on May, 5th 1910 in Ljubljana and has been in operation ever since.
One of the founders was Wilhelm Putick, a contemporary of the French speleologist E.A. Martel. Throughout its one hundred years of working the [...]
Last weekend, one of the two important traditional hungarian caving competitions was held in the mountains of Gerecse, the so-called Hágó – Kupa, for the seventeenth time. The competition is between teams of 3 cavers. 21 teams participated in the race, which included challenges like passing an SRT rigging with a bycicle or a snowboard, [...]
Here, you can read about a traditional yearly cave diving expedition to Mchishta cave in the foot of Caucasus mountains, including underground camping behind the sumps.
You can see extraordinary pictures taken from this giant hall of Pierre-Saint-Martin cave system by basque cavers. A bunch of people were providing lights with flashes and Scurion lights, directed by walkie-talkies. Watch the video with the giant picture zooming out! On espeleobloc
On the website of italian club CGEB you can read two interesting articles about the use of ARVAs (avalanche transceivers) on detecting cave wall thickness, or for example, where is the cave passage closest to the surface? With a known survey of the cave, they checked around where should be the a second entrance made [...]
On espeleovirtual you can read and watch photos & videos about a giant burning crater, which can be found in Darvaz, Turkmenistan, in the middle of Karakum Desert. Local people call it the “Gates of hell”. In 1971, people were searching for gas, when somehow they a big crater opened with collapse of the terrain, [...]
On espeleo i aigua you can read about the use of multimonty (”screwfix”), and more understandable, you can see two short videos about how to install them. It is interesting that the drill used here is Bosch Uneo, which weights just 1,1kg! These techniques are used in cave exploration in remote places, where the weight [...]