Here you can read about an expedition to Laos, where cavers discovered more than 30 new caves, with 7km+ length, including two bigger ones with the length of 1,5km. Four members of Speleoclub Garfagnana participated in the expedition, which lasted for about a month.
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New cave under the capital of Hungary
March 8, 2010 – 3:06 pm
At 6th of March, 2010 two recently (2008, 2009) discovered caves were connected in the karst of Buda-hills. The new system is named Harcsaszájú – Hideglyuk barlang, which is 5km long (surveyed), with 85m depth. The cave is very well decorated with flowstones, aragonites, popcorns, etc. It includes some quite big passages with 15×30m cross-section, [...]
Jewel Cave reaches 150-mile mark
March 5, 2010 – 6:37 am
Jewel Cave surpassed 150 miles of mapped and explored passageways last weekend, according to a news release. Three exploration teams of volunteers entered the cave on Saturday morning and spent between 12 and 20 hours underground surveying various areas of the cave. Their combined measurements totaled 3,032.65 feet. Added to the existing 149.55 miles, the [...]
Invitaion to speleocontest in Belarus
March 4, 2010 – 11:42 am
Hello, friends!
I’d like to invite you to International speleocontest that will be hold at the forest not far from Minsk (capital of the state), on 3-4 of April.
It is wellknown caver’s event and every year we meet cavers from Moscow, StPetersburg, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania. There will be 4 levels at the competition, and they are [...]
Križna jama – Virtual Reality
March 3, 2010 – 6:49 am
Here you take a 3d virtul tour in the beautifoul Krizna Jama, Slovenia.
Brezno pod Velbom – 6th attempt
March 2, 2010 – 7:49 am
Between 15-22 January cavers from Speleoklub “Bobry” Zagan attempted to reach the bottom of the 501m deep entrance shaft of Brezno pod Velbom abyss. This is the 6th time since 1999 when they try to make it, as it is part of their project – The Crown of the Subterrean – descending the deepest shafts [...]
Velika klisura – Gryka e madhe 2010
March 1, 2010 – 6:48 am
During the last week in January 2010,slovak cavers conducted the first year’s event in the karst area of Kosovo. The actions involved 11 members of SSS.The main objective of the research,was preparation of the terminal siphon of cave Velika Klisura. To prevent inflow to the final siphon, they carried a generator (see picture!) trough the [...]
Botovskaya – 2010 winter
February 26, 2010 – 2:48 pm
Here you can read about the 22 th expedition from Irkutsk “ Arabica” club cavers in the cave Botovskaya, which can be found in East Siberia, close to the Lake Baikal. The expedition was organized with the support of the East Siberian Branch of Russian Geographical Society and the administration Zhigalovskii area. Five days spent [...]
Tatra – Cave Javorinka 2010 (Czech-Slovak-Polish expedition)
February 24, 2010 – 10:05 am
Here you can read about the international expedition to Javorinka cave (High Tatras, 8km/ -360m). The aim of the expedition was to connect the cave to another one, creating a second entrance to the system. This way explorers can enter the cave without passing the Kerberos siphon, which is open only in dry and cold [...]
Caves of Mallorca, indicators of climate changes
February 23, 2010 – 9:52 am
On espeleobloc, you can read an article published in Science, which is about how caves of Mallorca show the marks of a 20m sea level drop of the Mediterranean Sea between 85.400 and 76.600 bc.