Following WWII a building boom raced across the verdant hills above Naples like wildfire. Speculators with lots of money ran roughshod over a city government besieged with restructuring and organizing City regulatory and permitting offices following heavy bombing and other trials of WWII. Multi-story apartment buildings on long spindly [...]
Here you can read about the history of cave diving, starting from 1878 Nello Ottonelli’s first attempts at Vaclause, to the latest records of today. By espeleobloc.
On the link below, you can find the bi-monthly e bulletin called CADI KAZANI published by ASPEG speleo club, Turkey. The last two editions contain English abtract section at the back of the bulletin. The bulletin generally concentrates on the culture, art, friendship and memoirs of trips and expeditions of caving. It aims to cover [...]
On calcairecrayon blog you can find a nice series of drawings about a Padirac expedition.
Today a new version of the website Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and karstology (UYSK): http://www.institute.speleoukraine.net/ is availabele. UYSK opened access to the archive of magazine “Svet” – “Light”, with opportunities searching for various key (years,numbers, authors, headings). As a result of large work, now all materials, published in the journal “Light” from 1991 years – [...]
Showcaves.com is now 15 years online. The first descriptions of caves and the collection of useful information was made around 1990 by Jochen Duckeck, first for the new show caves in eastern Germany, which became accessible after the border was opend in November 1989. The first idea to publish a guidebook was never realized: printing [...]
The Proceedings of of the 15th International Congress of Speleology are now available at http://www.lib.usf.edu/karst-test/SPT–BrowseResources.php?ParentId=367
The proceedings are currently posted as PDF files, as they were printed in three large volumes. The PDFs are thus large, 11, 16, and 18 Mb for volumes 1, 2, and 3. The Table of Contents is in Volume 1. The [...]
A cave in the end moraine of the glacier Larsbreen, Spitsbergen. You can find wonderful photos & more text here .
Here’s a retro cartoon about the adventrues of E.A. Martel from espeleobloc.
Here you can find an article and some pictures about the survey of the longest cave on earth, Mamooth Cave System, which is 590km long!