In the period from August 10 to September 1, 2010, 9 th speleologists from 6 bulgarian caving clubs members of Bulgarian Federation of Speleology, together with 5 th Kyrgyz cavers carried out joint speleological expedition in the area of Ridge Kokshaaltau – Mountain Tien Shan in South Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgizia). For the first time [...]
Sep 2 2010. A group of Iranian cavers form ICSA (Iran Caving and Speleology Association) are now exploring a deep pit near Hafshehjan, Shahrekord in the west of Iran. The latest news says that they have right now reached the depth of -180 meters which still seems to continue. The previous attempts by other local [...]
During summer expeditions, cavers of Gruppi Speleo di Lucca e Forte di Marmi pushed Abisso Satanachia to -800m in the valley of Sereneaia, in Alpi Apuani, Italy. The cave is still going on, explorers turned back because of lack of equipement from the bottom. More info in theri blog, here.
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
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 8776/807m, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]