Monthly Archives: September 2010

Abisso Led Zeppelin -1000m!

During the last week, a group of three worked in Abisso Led Zeppelin cave, located in Canin mountains, Italy,as a continuation of the joint italian-hungarian re-exploration efforts since 2008. They widened some narrow passage at -900m, and they entered to the continuation of “Anniversary Gallery”, discovered in 2008. The passage lead them to a fossil [...]

International Expedition of Cave Exploration, Caving and Speleology

Considering the new rush of caving and speleology in Iran, some cavers  and speleologists from Shiraz are holding an Intranational gathering of cavers in Shiraz city. This gathering is held by Abhayee Sefid Group and Shiraz mountaineering association. Cavers from ICSA will also join this gathering to show their support and friendship. It is held [...]

Lithuanian expo report from Krubera

The most interesting information: 1. We found out that water level near “Dva Kapitana” sump is rising up to 230 metres in the bottom of the cave on June. Summary of water level results: Flooding: – Big Junction (-1810m) floods to 11.5m – Kvitochka sump (-1970m) floods to 72m – Dva Kapitana (-2140m) floods to [...]

Albania-Valbona 2010 report

This year, our team came to the valley Valbones (Albanian Alps) for the fifth time. The essential purpose was to complete the works associated with locating and cataloguing caves in the high – alpine valley Lugu e Bolčit (2100 m) located between the peaks of Maja Ismet Sala Brucaj and Maja Cet-Harushes. After last year’s [...]

Slovak news from the Balkans

An exploratory two-weeks action in karst areas of Kosovo (Velika Klisura Cave) and Macedonia – Jakupica Mountains (Slovacka jama Cave), was held in August by 10 members of the Slovak Speleological Society, Kosovo and Macedonian cavers. Kosovo, Velika Klisura Cave: during the two days we transported into the cave material for draw the final siphon [...]

Cave Cleaning day in Iran

“Iranian caves conditions are not proper. While visiting Ghar Golzard we faced a destroyed cave” The above words were stated by Jean Pierre Bartholeyns, the president of  Department of Protection and Management of UIS, two years ago during ISEI2008. Considering the words of Fadi Nader, the secretary general of UIS, most damages to caves are [...]

Cave Rescue Conference – Bulgaria 2011

12  International Cave Rescue Conference DRYANOVO MONASTERY – DRYANOVO BULGARIA 8 – 15 May, 2011

Abisso Satanachia -1000m !!!

In the weekend of september 3 to 5, cavers of GSL Lucchese and GS CAI Fotre dei Marmi along with other cavers from Italy broken the magic mark of -1000m in Abisso Satanachia. After enlarging a narrow passage, explorers found the cave gping on and on! The surveying is still going on, the depth mark [...]

Krubera – Voronya 2010

This year three parallel epeditions were working in the cave, in August-September. Two of them, CAVEX, and the Lithuanians worked in the the deep parts of the cave, with the aim of diving in Two Capitains siphoon. Due to problems with rebeather, the CAVEX teams was not able to make a serious attempt on the [...]

Höher Goll 2010

Between 3rd and 31th of August, 2010, polsih caving club WKTJ had their traditional summer camp in Höher Goll massif, Austria, with around 16 participants. With using four different underground camps for exploration in different areas, they discovered 500ms of corridors, and pushed Unvollendeterschacht to -1183m, making the Hochschartehöhlensystem -1318m deep. more info at pza.org

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