Finding 2 kms a Hungarian and Italian team continued the exploration of the Abysso Led Zeppelin (-1030 m) in January 2012. The main result of the camp is a long horizontal gallery, that starts from the deepzone (-950) and goes wery close to the surface on the sharp side of the moutain.

Shortly about Zeppelin: The cave is located on the Italian side of Canin plateau, on the Pala Cellar zone, 2130 m above the sea level. Italian cavers explored in the ’90-ies until -960. The connection between the cave and the Gliun spring (460 m asl, Slovenia, Bovec) was proved by water tracing (Casagrande, Cucci, Manca, Zini 1999.) We started to continue the work in Zeppelin in 2008. because of the expressive 1600 meter altitude difference between the entrance and the spring.

We went over the old endpoint in fossile galleries in the last years and reached -1030 m. A sudden flood nearly turned into tragedy 2 years ago in November, when two young caver became closed by a 100 meter risen water for 62 hours.

During the last week camp the Zeppelin didn’t become deeper. The new gallery we found got the name after the strong airblast. Sirocco could be the main water-collector of the Zeppelin in the anicent times. That is on the same alititude above the sea level like the two other main water collector of the North Canin, the Grande Meandro in Gortani and the active level of the Sisma-Fonda-Laricretto system (1200 m asl). A younger tectonical movement under the ridge of the Canin made a new way to the water to the direction of the Gliun later. These new drains can be narrow, that caused the sudden flood 2 years ago. It can be a bifurcation: the recent main spring of the Zeppelin is the Gliun, but during strong hydrologic activity, across the new gallery it can feed also the old spring of the system on the north side, the Goriuda (850 m asl.).

CGEB: Marco Sticotti, Space, Giusto (Italy)

Canin Explo Team: Zih József, Kiss Péter, Szabó Leó (Hungary)

I think, it will be interesting as “speleonews”. We finished “drawing” maps of the Snowcave: very big and beautiful cave.

download file you can here: http://club13mm.ru/topo/

with best regards: Kostya (Rad)

We have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the International
Speleo Festival and SRT Competitions which will take place in the period:
13th– 17th of September 2012 near the town of Maikop, Republic of Adygei,
Russian Federation.

At the same time and place the IXth Championship of Russia will be
held involving a great amount of cavers from the different parts of the
country.
The aim of the Festival is to share skills, opinions and experience
among cavers from all over the World. The races of the Competitions will
give the opportunity for everybody to check and show your skills level and
to become the Champion. The participants will compete on individual
distances as well as team distances for 2 and 4 sportsmen. The distances
will simulate different kinds of underground works.

PLACE OF THE EVENT
Russian Federation, Republic of Adygei, Kamennomostskiy township
(40 km to the South of the Maikop city), “Hadzhohskaya tesnina” canyon.
This is a place of recreation and excursions attracting lots of tourists each
year.
The place of competition is well-known for its nature and developed
tourism facilities. During the Festival you will have a great opportunity to
visit nature reserve Lago-Naki which is well-known in Russia for its
beauty and local caves. It will be possible to make rafting on river Belaya,
watch competitions of Russian mountaineering, boating, backpacking
tourists and travelling cyclists which will take place there at the same
period of time.
TRAVEL
The Kamennomostskiy township is located 40 km to the South of the
city of Maikop which is the capital of the Republic of Adygei. You can get
to Maikop by train or by bus from the city of Krasnodar where the nearest
airport is situated. The transfer from Maikop to Kamennomostskiy
township will be organized. Anyway you can easily get to the place of the event by your own car.

ACCOMODATION
The organizers offer to the participants various ways for
accommodation – hotels, huts, camping with bungalows or own tents – all
on pedestrian distance (up to 20 minutes) from the place of the Festival.
Additional information will be given on the request.
Preliminary program, participation application and the information on
the Participation fee of the Festival will be available in the nearest future.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Project coordinator: Sizikova Natalya – Vice Chairman of Speleo
Commission of Sporting Tourism Union of Russia.
tel: +79264306465
E-mail: dobsha@mail.ru
www.speleosport.com

Since yesterday, the longest cave in Hungary is the Szépvölgyi System (29km), after connecting Harcsaszájú-Hideglyuk System (9km) to Pálvölgyi-Mátyáshegyi cave (20km). The connection involved serious digging efforts. The system has 10 entrances, and can be found under the capital of Hungary, Budapest. The caves are formed mainly in eocene limestone, and all of the entrances have been discovered during quarrying limestone for the buildings of Budapest, the first one at 1902. The cave formed about 2 million years ago, with thermal waters uprising and dissoulating the tectonically preformed rock. Because of this, the plan of the cave is a big maze, a labyrinth, where it difficult to find the way without map. Because of climatic conditions on the surface, the temperature of the cave is around 11 degrees celsius.

Gabor Losonci

Here you can read about the joint russian-italian expedition of  Ekaterinburg City Caving Club and La Venta Esploracioni Geografiche team in Central Asia, Tadgikistan, 150 km south of Samarcand.

Here you can read an arctilcle about the glaciospeleology in Switzerland.

Possibilities for continued exploration in the cave include diving in the sump in Renejevo brezno -1242m , searching for a bypass to the sump, and exploring the continuation of the collector stream on the far side of the sump.  These were also the goals of an expedition between the 9th and 13th of November, 2011, undertaken by a team of 8 cavers who descended into the cave.  They were assisted by a 14-member surface support team.  The expedition required coordinating the large in-cave and surface teams as well as taking into account  weather and snow conditions.  We also needed to select a cave diver who would be up to such an effort.  We soon found that, because of the depth of the cave, it would not be easy to find a candidate among active divers.  During the search for a diver, we also notified active cavers who occasionally dive.  The exceptional effort involved in the expedition would be significant on a world scale, because cave sumps at such depths have only rarely been explored – in Slovenia only Črnelsko brezno by the world’s best team of cavers, Cavex.  Aside from this, the deepest sumps previously explored in Slovenia have been at cave depths of 300-400 m.  The demanding work of diving in Renejevo brezno was carried out by Matt Covington, a member of DZRJL.  The support team was composed of members of DZRJL, one member of DRP Škofja Loka, and one member of JD Dimnice Koper. more here

Thanks to the renewing of the contacts between Bulgarian speleologists in the face of Aleksey Zhalov and Geographical Institute of Yunnan Province we had  the exclusive opportunity to realize new  Bulgarian-Chinese expedition to Yunnan Province. The Bulgarian members of the expedition was composed by 5 cavers:

Alexey Zhalov – Caving Club “Helictit” Sofia – Leader

Alexander Stoev – Caving Club “Puldin” – Plovdiv

Boyan Petrov – National Museum of Natural History

Kamen Bonev – Caving Club”Vertilend” – Sofia

Konstantin Stoilov – Student Caving Club “Academic” – Sofia

The group included a Greek speleologist Lambros Makrostergios chairman of the Cave Club of Karditsa town.

The Chinese side was composed by , 4 th Chinese cavers led by Zhang Fan – caver and Deputy Director of the Institute of Geography of Yunnan Province and Professor Liu Hong – hydrogeologist , who is also a Bulgarian graduate in caving.

Within 20 days, 12 of which fieldwork, the expedition worked in two different  areas about 400 km far from each other . Ten days were devoted to work in the Baoshan district  in particular in  the territory of Golingoshan National Nature Reserve, stretches along the China Myanmar border. About that time, six horisontal  and 2 vertical caves were explored. The most interesting was the volcanic cave Djin Fu Dong near Tengchong  Town which length was 729 m and depth of 94 m (-24.3; +69.8 ). With a depth of -118  m the pot hole Wushaonin Dong was the deepest one which the team studied there.

The expedition worked two days in an area located about 60 km from Kunming – the provincial capital of Younan. The work was concentrated in the so-called Swallow Cave . For two entries in the cave have been mapped  over 1.5 km displacement galleries – 95 m, in which it was the longest cave mapped during the expedition. In Da Shi Dong cave after about 10 hours of  exploration and surveying  K. Stoilov and A. Stoev with partial support  of L.Makrostergios , K.Bonev, L.Houng and A. Zhalov mapped 1.394 km  so the cave  became the second longest cave explored by the joint team.

During the expedition were mapped 10 caves  with a total length of the galleries above 4854  m. The surveying data objects was processed in Autocad  and On Station program also because the efforts of  K. Stoilov.

In the remaining days we visited 4 more caves. B. Petrov explored all objects from  biospeleological point of  view, respectively, had collected a considerable zoological material. He carried out research on the species composition of bats in all visited and explored caves.