Monthly Archives: August 2010

New entrance to Chimera

News from Carcaria, Italy: with enlarging passages bypassing landslides of “V2″ cave, a connection  to Abisso Chimera had happened trough Pozzo Hosanna (P80).  Now it is the systems highest entrance, making it 30m deeper. more info here

Vodna Sled 2010

You can read here about the success of british Imperial College Caving Club expediton to Migovec Plateau, Slovenia. “ Vodna Sled 2010 was an epic success – in all we discovered 2.2km of new passage, all below -500m, all in Vrtnarija using Camp X-Ray (Reloaded, four bed camp) -550m as a base. Vrtnarija is now [...]

Polish expedition to Aladaglar

From June 25 to July 19, a group of polish cavers had their expedition next to peak Demirkazik, in Aladaglar Massif, Turkey. The expedition consisted of 12 people from Poland and Turkey, and one member from the USA. They worked often above 3000m above sea level altitude, and discovered 21 new caves, the largest one [...]

New depth record in Canada

The depth record for Canadian caves has just been broken, with the connection of Heavy Breather and Pachidream caves located in the Rocky Mountains in the southeast of the province of British Columbia. On August 14th 2010 a team of five consisting of Colin and Vince Massey, Katie Graham, Chris Omura and Gavin Elsley descended [...]

Hungarian explo in Beshkjet e Nemuna

Between 6th and 15th of August, a group of five hungarian cavers held their yearly summer camp in Prozmit area, Albania, Beshkjet e Nemuna. This year the team managed to break trough the bottom of -194m deep cave “Hiúz”, and pushed it to -350m. Currently this is the deepest cave explored by hungarians in the [...]

Maja Harapit 2010

With great success over the Bulgarian National  Speleological expedition “Maya Arapit ’2010. For one month from 15 July, 31 th speleologists our club of 13 members of the Bulgarian Federation of Speleology and two Ukrainians worked in shifts to continue the Bulgarian studies in Maya Arapit Cave and the vicinity of the same summit (2214 [...]

Hungarian expedition to Crna Gora

The yearly expedition of the hungarian speleological society, at Lovcen national park, had the following results: In the first two weeks of august, 1,5km of new passages were discovered, one kilometer of them surveyed in Njegos cave, which is now 5,5km (around -400m), new parts include large dry galleries. Two new major caves with depth [...]

ATLAS 2010

You can find information about ATLAS-2010 expedition from Marocco on espeleobloc.

Conection of Enllaç Bufona – C9 (Escuain)

On August 1  interclub teams  (SAR, CEC ERE, ECGràcia, Proteus) in the annual expeditions of GEBadalona Escuaín has dived to the terminal siphon Linda C20 (-501m) getting the connection the C9 (-830M). Finally on Saturday 31 July, a team of five people  went to Linda at 19pm to sleep in the bivouac, Sunday at 9 [...]

Culiembro – Xitu connection!

News from colleagues in the British expedition Culiembro 2010, that the last siphon dived onto a large lake with an inscription on the wall “OUCC 1979-81.” Finally the two system is connected after long lasting efforts and several dives! More info at espeleobloc.

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