We are organizing with great commitment supramontes International Speleological Camp 2010 to be held in Urzulei (Sardinia) 1 to 15 August 2010. Time we have a website where you’ll find all the necessary information.

Visit http://www.aspros.it

For our logistical needs we are asking participants to register in advance on the website by completing the registration form online, and to pay a minimum fee of 40 Euros (which provides 5 days of participation in the camp). The registration fee is composed of shares (5 euros) and a daily fee of 7 Euros. For example, if one decides to stay 8 days in advance will pay 5 + 8 × 7 = 61 euros, but if it remains all the 14 days the percentage rises to 103 euros. The registration and payment entitlement to food and accommodation for the days indicated on the form. There are two social dinners (middle and end of field) that can be paid at the time (during camp) at rates to be agreed (but reasonable). Do not worry, if you pay for 8 days and then remain only 4 ,we will refund you.

Keep in mind that the camp was organized at a time “hot”, so try to book early places by boat or plane. We expect to do the shuttle between the airports of Cagliari and Olbia on demand, and perhaps also from Alghero. Enough that you do know there early!

Do not hesitate to contact the organizers of the event for more questions and curiosity.

We hope to put together a nice and effective band of explorers in the underground rivers in Supramonte this summer!

Dear greetings

For the organizing committee
Jo, Laura and Savior

jo.dewaele @ unibo.it
salvacabra@tiscali.it
speleokikers@tiscali.it

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.

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, and some fissures where you most use SRT (it is quite uncommon in this karst). Several open leads left, and exploration is still going on. Another interesting fact, that the caver pub is in the neighbor, and Pálvölgyi – cave, which is 20km long, is just at 40m distance!

more info in hungarian & some pictures here:

http://barit.cserkesz.hu/harcsa/

http://hideg-lyuk.freeblog.hu/

original here

I’d like to invite you to International speleocontest that will be hold at the forest not far from Minsk (capital of the state), on 3-4 of April.
It is wellknown caver’s event and every year we meet cavers from Moscow, StPetersburg, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania. There will be 4 levels at the competition, and they are organized mostly at the trees (we have no mountains, but have brains (and experience) to make a good and  popular contect using national surface))

I also will be glad to show you Minsk and, if you have time, Brest city-  one of region center on the north-west of the Belarus, known with its Brest fortress (from the II world war).

If you are interested please send your scan passports as soon as possible (today will be great))), because at the moment we are composing the letters about visa without consular paymеnts for all our international guests.

Looking forward for you reply,

Sergey Kabanov.

+375297224354

Ana  Siarheyeva
+ 375 29 7728 358

Here you take a 3d virtul tour in the beautifoul Krizna Jama, Slovenia.

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 of the world. This year they were unlucky, too, because of an ice plug at -400m stopped them.

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 cave for pumping. Further localization of a possible second entrance to the cave over the surface with pieps equipement. The third objective was the exploration and measurement Radavac cave, which turned out to be 850m long. More here.

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 working by groups in the camps underground, and the cave was surveyed further in 2332m length . And at this point the length of the cave Botovskaya reached 64 435m. The new area is with numerous lakes. At the same time there were three self-contained underground camp. Communication between them was carried out by telephone.

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 winter times. The connection was achieved with Pieps equipement.