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, [...]
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 [...]
Two expeditions in Illyuzia-Mezhonnogo-Snezhnaya
February 20, 2010 – 4:33 am
From december to january, two expeditions visited the worlds second deepest cave, the Illyuzia-Mezhonnogo-Snezhnaya system. They used the lower Snezhnaya entrance, and faced some serious flooding around the bottom, because of melting of snow at the surface. You can read about the expedition proceedings here and here.
Mesacny Tien – the longest cave in Tatra
February 6, 2010 – 7:48 pm
Between January 22 and 25, a group of slovak cavers visited Mesacny Tien cave in Tatra mountains. With the 900m of surveyed new parts, the length of the cave reached 24,1km, and surpassed the length of polish cave Wielka Snieźna, becoming the longest one in the Tatra. When the group descended to the 1st Bivouac [...]
SKALARJEVO – JANUARY 2010
February 3, 2010 – 10:15 am
The 21st January 2010 was finished caving expedition PROJECT MT.KANIN -2000M. The main interest for cavers from six countries (CZ, SK, SLO, GB, HR, PL) represented again the cave Skalarjevo brezno. The main goal was to survey new passages in Sleeping dragon (Black meander and Gallery of Three) in the lenght 300m which were discovered [...]
Croatian – Bulgarian expedition in Biokovo
February 1, 2010 – 10:05 am
Between 2009 october 1 and 10, a group of croatian and bulgarian cavers had and expedition in Biokovo mountains. They discovered 10 new caves, and made the survey in seven of the new ones. The deepest cave is -237m namely jama Zara. See more info here