At the far end of Cueva del Nacimiento is the (Far) Upstream Sump. Dived in the 80’s by Ian Rollands and Rob Parker, and again in 2023 by Martin Groves. Extract from logbook (Chris Jewell) Thursday 5th September 2024 diving on KISS sidewinder with 2ltr O2 + 1 x 12ltr 26% and 1 x 12ltr…
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Extracts from 2024 log (Rob Middleton, Jack Dewison) Tuesday 3rd September 2024 Assisted to sump by many others (thanks!) Passed Sump 1 with 2x 7L bottles, ditched 1 bottle at far side of Sump 1, carried 1x 7L and 2 bags each to Sump 2.Passed Sump 2 on a single 7L each. Ditched dive kit…
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The 2024 expedition, to Tresviso, will shortly be returning to the UK after a very wet and miserable 2 weeks of weather but some excellent caving. Overview & brief history: The Picos de Europa is a range of mountains 20km inland from the northern coast of Spain, forming the westerly extension of the Cantabrian Mountains.…
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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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