from showcaves blog:
We are pretty much astonished. This cave was closed to the public years ago, then opened on a very limited basis and finally a replica was built and inaugurated by the Spanish King. Then the cave was closed completely.
Now the Spanish ministry of culture had news for all tourists and art lovers: the [...]
Davorjevo Brezno – Kozina (Hrpelje), SLO
Together with the Jamarsko Drustvo Herpelje Kozina, the CGEB has found and explored a new vertical cave in the Classical Karst, just beyond the Italian-Slovenjan border. The cave, 200 m deep and almost a kilometer long, has the biggest drop of 60 m, and includes several large [...]
On espeleovirtual you can read and watch photos & videos about a giant burning crater, which can be found in Darvaz, Turkmenistan, in the middle of Karakum Desert. Local people call it the “Gates of hell”. In 1971, people were searching for gas, when somehow they a big crater opened with collapse of the terrain, [...]
Portugal caving group, Colectivo Dueça connected two caves, Olho do Dueça and Soprador do Carvalho, creating a system of more than 5km length, on 24th of April, 2010. The connection was chased for years, with several diving attempts. Finally the connection was made trough very narrow passages in an upper level. more info
You can see an outstanding video collection, and survey (by La Venta) of the giant cristal cave on espeleobloc.
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 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 [...]
On espeleo you can read about the unique glow worm caves of New Zealand. These caves are illuminated by Arachnocampa luminosa glowworm.
Here you can see some pictures from Hang Son Doong, the cave which contains the world’s biggest known gallery, which is 5km long, and has an average width of 100m, but in some parts the cross-section also reach 200×150m. There are also some 70m high stals…