News from Carcaria, Italy: with enlarging passages bypassing landslides of “V2″ cave, a connection to Abisso Chimera had happened trough Pozzo Hosanna (P80). Now it is the systems highest entrance, making it 30m deeper. more info here
Members of italian Speleoclub Garfagnana divived in the bottom of Abisso Chimera, and reached the depth of -15m. The passage filled with water is still going on, another 25m of vertical section is visible going down.The depth of the cave changed to -1028m, with this action, and some resurveying. original here
1 August 2010 to 15 August 2010
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 [...]
Between January 2 and 15, a group of hungarian caves visited the Canin massif, Italy. The target of the exploration was the recently discovered parts in Abisso Sisma, which joined the Fonda-Laricetto system two years ago. During the internal camp, which lasted for ten days, 1600m of new passages were discovered and surveyed, mainly high [...]
Here you can read about the winter camp held in Piani Eterni system, in the Dolomites, Italy. The camp lasted from December 26 to January 8 , with a total number of 13 person inside (each person staying 4-5 days inside). The results are 2,5km of newly discovered passages includig a 80m deep pitch.
Here you can read about the winter camp held in Monte Grigna, in Abisso W Le Donne (11km,-1196m). The expedition discovered and surveyed 770m of new passages. Unfortunately the team was not able to get deeper than around -1100m in the collector at the bottom, because of large amount of water. The expedition lasted from [...]
Cavers of Gruppo Speleologi CAI Malo reached -800m at Abisso del Corno, Asiago Plateau. During their expedition in december, 2009. You can find an article on their site about the explo here.
From december 6 to 8, 2009, there was a big expedition in Bueno Fonteno cave, two cave divers attempted to dive trough the final sump of the cave. There was 50 people from local caving clubs aiding them to transport the material to the bottom of the cave (-451m, 15km). More info at Scintilena.
The Italian Speleological Society – SSI Società Speleologica Italiana next weekend organize the national meeting “Toirano 2009 – Speleologie in movimento” from 30 october to 1 novembre 2009, in the little city of Toirano, in Liguria Region. This is the first italian meeting with this target: Toirano 2009 is an open meeting with congresses, workshops, [...]
From august 8 to 23, in their summer camp, italian cavers extended Complesso dell’Alto Releccio by 800m of extension, and 9m of depth, by connecting a new cave to the system, which is now -1198m,15km with 11 entrances.
More here…