October 17, 2011 – 12:34 pm
From 15 September until 15 October 2011 three Dutch cavers a Belgium Caver a Slovenia Caver and an UK Caver plan to visit the northern slopes of mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. This is the first time an official research will be done on Africa’s biggest mountain. Our main goal is surveying and mapping lava tubes on the [...]
October 13, 2011 – 8:08 pm
Here you can read about the heroic diving efforts in Pozo Azul this year. The achievement is surfacing after sump S3, which is 3km underwater !!! After 180 m of passage with air, and an anctive stream, another sump is waiting for the explorers.
October 10, 2011 – 3:29 pm
Arabica-2011 decade of work September 1 to October 7 in the triangle (Western Caucasus, Abkhazia, Gagra ridge mountain Arabica 41 participiant -1560 polusifon zigzag narrow meander -1460 The Arabica-2011 expedition was a major success. It was held between September 1 to October 7 in the triangle (Western Caucasus, Abkhazia, Gagra ridge mountain Arabica). Finally the breaktrough [...]
October 8, 2011 – 7:56 pm
The entrance was located in 1996 by the members of JOSPDTrst, and the team enlarged two bottlenecks to reach a depth of around- 10m. There was so srtong draft that they marked the small, hidden entrance well. This summer the team returned to fight the remaining bottlenecks, widened fissures and break into a huge cave [...]
October 3, 2011 – 7:49 pm
Here you can read about the slovak exploration of the alpine Jakupica Plateau in Macedonia. You can read about this years exploration, when the major cave was pushed to -590m, but the nice web page also contains records of previvious explorations.
September 20, 2011 – 9:52 am
2nd Bulgarian-Kyrgyz expeditions organized by “Asia Mounatins”International Travel Center came back from the bottom of the Tien-Shan. We remind first expedition was organized in 2010 and surprised us with many explorations. This year team of speleologists concentrated on the lake Kel Suu. According to the opinion of experts Kel Suu is one of the most [...]
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 [...]