Between 6th and 15th of August, a group of five hungarian cavers held their yearly summer camp in Prozmit area, Albania, Beshkjet e Nemuna. This year the team managed to break trough the bottom of -194m deep cave “Hiúz”, and pushed it to -350m. Currently this is the deepest cave explored by [...]
With great success over the Bulgarian National Speleological expedition “Maya Arapit ‘2010. For one month from 15 July, 31 th speleologists our club of 13 members of the Bulgarian Federation of Speleology and two Ukrainians worked in shifts to continue the Bulgarian studies in Maya Arapit Cave and the vicinity of the [...]
Year 2009 in Valbona -2 Polish expeditions in Albania
This year we went to Valbona as a bigger team than before – ten speleologists, and five people who support our actions in the mountains. We chose a different route to travel – tested in May, the route through Kosovo. It takes less time, but unfortunately is [...]
A group of polish cavers visited the alpine karst of Albania for the fifth time. Traditionally the period of the expedition was 15 to 31 August, and, as in previous years, the weather was good. This year their goal was a plateau located between the peaks of Maja Ismael Sali Brucaj (2527 m) and Maja Cet Harushes (2421 m). An [...]
September 2009 saw the continuation, after the initial ventures in 1993, 1994, 2006 and 2008, of the exploratory expedition to Albania by the Caving Society, the Commissione Grotte “Eugenio Boegan” CAI Trieste. Its purpose was to survey the enormous karst plateau which acts as a reference to the area of the Hekurave and Boshit mountains, [...]
During the expedition was surveyed 1313 м. of new passages. Over 0,5 km of old passage was remmaped. The actual length of the cave Maja Arapit (after this expedition) grow from 1224 m to 2537 m. The depth is 243 m where the highest point is + 217 and the lowest one is – 26 [...]