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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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.
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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by Sam Deeley Having been driven down to the entrance by Joe, we entered the cave at 1300. Bob and Dave led the way to the streamway, after which we split into two parties. Following the directions of Dave, specifically details of the climb over a calcite flow, we reached the first boulder choke. Quickly,…
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Expedition Dates 1st September to 15th September 2018 – main expedition dates Objectives The expedition has a number of goals. The following are a few primary objectives: Cueva del Nacimiento Jurassic World – Terror Firma – multiple avens and climbs, Pina Colada Bypass – a 3-10m rift leads off from the Pina Colada sump. Joe’s…
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Cueva del Nacimiento – Jurassic World – Terror Firma The ‘final’ aven at the end of the cave was climbed to over 40m, a split in the aven was followed to a new height of 534m above the entrance, but closed down. The second aven remains unclimbed and is ongoing Cueva del Nacimiento – Jurassic…
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A total of six caves found with four of them believed to have never have been descended. The two previously we believe that have previously been descended included Rotten Sheep Cave and the unnamed ‘Sheep Skull Cave’. The first cave found during the prospecting trip was a small chamber (4m x 4m x 3m) entered…
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After being promised a four day camping trip in cave where, I wouldn’t get wet and in the warmest cave passage in the world, I was keen to get going. Less than 24hours after leaving Cardiff we were standing in the entrance of Cueva del Agua, a steaming resergence, 15m in diameter. They said I…
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Alex here, not really sure what to say. This is my first trip to my Picos and I have no idea what to expect. All I know so far is that its going to be tough, I need a big bag and it’s completely dry; that was until I heard that there was a popped…
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