September 19, 2011 – 9:03 am
Separated for 20 Million Years: Blind Beetle from Bulgarian Caves Clarifies Questions ScienceDaily (July 15, 2011) — One of the smallest ever cave-dwelling ground beetles (Carabidae), has recently been discovered in two caves in the Rhodopi Mountains, Bulgaria, and described under the name Paralovricia beroni. The beetle is completely blind and is only 1.8-2.2 mm long. [...]
September 14, 2011 – 9:01 am
In Coliboaia Cave, situated in Apuseni Natural Parc, Bihor County (Romania) a gallery high above the subterranean river shelters black paintings , among which, a bison, a horse, a possible feline, one or two bear heads and two rhinos.There also are engravings. On the ground, cave bear bones have been discovered. This discovery, made by [...]
September 1, 2011 – 7:39 am
Between 15th July and the 15th August 2011, Imperial College Caving Club and the Jamarskaja Sekcija PDT had 20 members participate in the Izgubljeni Raj 2011 expedition to Tolminski Migovec, Slovenia. The aims for this expedition were the continued exploration of Vrtnarija, where considerable efforts in 2010 had led to the discovery of 2.2km of [...]
August 29, 2011 – 1:12 pm
The last expedition was also International and was held from 20 July to 20 August 2011, with fieldwork 26 days. It was attended by 34 people from 6 countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Russia, Ukraina. The artificial climbing in the 3 of all 4 vertical branches of the cave give totally 106 m of new passages with total displacement of + 75 meters from the level reachedlast [...]
August 26, 2011 – 9:12 am
Hi everybody The 3rd International FSE Camp “Chamois 2011” is now over, after 10 days of intense activity. With more than 30 participants and 10 nations, it was the most important. This year, a rented quad brought us useful facilities. Lot of work as been done and notably: On the surface: - Positioning of the Pingouins [...]
August 22, 2011 – 8:12 am
Trieste and Gorizia cavers returned from the field exploration in the mountains of Pindos (northwestern Greece). The expedition “Spylia 2011″ was organized by Club Alpinistico Triestino and Centro Ricerche Carsiche Seppenhofer di Gorizia with Studi Carsici AF Lindner di Ronchi dei Legionari (GO). The initiative was made possible thanks to financial support of the Municipality [...]
August 14, 2011 – 11:53 am
New junction in the massive Escuain (Spanish Pyrenees). This last Sunday 31 of July, we connected the cave C9 (-830m), with the system of Badalona (B15-B1), resulting in a new cross-trip 1060m. The connection is via a small tributary near the siphon terminal to 610m at the Gallery of Velles. Here you can see a [...]
For a short period of time, one week at the end of July, dozen cavers from Hungary visited again the mighty mountains of North Albanian Alps. Hiuz-cave was surveyed to -337m depth, 808m length. The cave is continuing in several places, and its length is more than 1km. During the expedition 20 new surface objects [...]
A sad loss for Iranian cavers Last Friday in a tragic fall on GII (8035 m) in Pakistan, Leila Esfandyari, a well-known Iranian caver and alpinist, lost her life. She was the first female caver who reached the end of Ghar Parau and had lots of cave exploration experience. As an alpinist she had climbed [...]
This is an attempt to locate the discoverer of a cave in Montenegro. A British team re-discovered the cave this month (July 2011). About 30 years ago a team of cavers were exploring an area to the east of Ledenice, above Risan on the Gulf of Kotor. At that time it was most likely to have [...]