Category: Andara

Eastern Massif caving expeditions

Tresviso 2022 Report published

The expedition report now available to download.

Tresviso 2022 Expedition Overview

Tresviso 2022  Eastern Massif, Picos de Europa, Northern Spain   1st September 2022– 20th September 2022      Overview & brief history:    The Picos de Europa is a range of mountains 20km inland from the northern coast of Spain, forming a Westerly extension of the Cantabrian Mountains.  It consists of three main areas, the Western, Central and…
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More videos

There are some fantastic caving videos out there on the web, excellent resolution, interesting, great music, commentary and annotations… the following videos are not them.

Things to do in a Pandemic (Part 2)

Following on from Things to do in a Pandemic (part 1) another area I have been working on over the past >2 years are updates of the survey repository. In 1996, when I first went out to Tresviso with LUSS, we had no real information on the caves other than the LUSS journals and a…
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Tresviso 2021

Despite best efforts the 2021 expedition did take place with continued exploration in the Cueva del Nacimiento cave in the Urdon Gorge (Tresviso, Cantabria).  Expeditions in the previous years have been slowly extending the cave up through the mountain range, with the intention of trying to connect the cave with the known deeper pot holes…
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Things to do in a Pandemic (part 1)

With no expedition in 2020 I was left with plenty of time to go through reams and reams of data, surveys and photos from the past 10 years of the expedition. About 10 years ago on one of the expeditions I took a small video camera, with the intention of creating a video log of…
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2019 Summary

A distinct lack of enthusiasm from people for writing up the expedition….. A post trip summary follows: The Tresviso expedition returned back to the UK last week and the following is a brief summary: Cueva del Nacimiento – Parting Friends In the entrance series of Nacimiento is an area called the Road to Wigan Pier…
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Tresviso 2019

The 2019 expedition is only 5 weeks away. Hopefully some interesting blog posts will be created, but firstly, as per previous years, a bit of a brief overview of expedition: Overview & brief history: The Picos de Europa is a range of mountains 20km inland from the northern coast of Spain, forming a westerly extension…
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Silvestre Pot (Sobra Valley)

An early start was arranged, which would normally mean an early night. 2am was the actual bedtime for most on the trip. The agreed start time of 9am was fairly well stuck to and saw us at the cave by 9.45am. Upon arrival at the track, AG decided to put his caving kit on and…
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Practice Pot (IM2) Cueva Donga (AS 1) & de Silvestre (KJ1)   

By Stu Coxon  We left the hostel with the intention and kit to look at the tight section in Cueva Donga and hopefully enlarge it. Our secondary objective was to have a look at the pitch in the entrance of what is now known as Practice Pot. Alistair and Dreads went over to Practice Pot…
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