Polish activity abroad

Kitzteinhorn 2001 - J. Nowak

In April, a 14-man team lead by Andrzej Ciszewski carried out exploration in Feichtnerschahthöhle. The cave is located in the Hohe Tauern in the Kitzsteinhorn massif (Austria). The expedition was a reward for earlier efforts. In a few days, without serious difficulties the cave was pushed down from -697 m to -1025 m. It ended in a muddy chamber wich a narrow cleft. The cave is developed in an unusual rock - methamorphic mica-bearing carbonate schists, and is situated in the area considered to be non-karstic umil now. It is the deepest cave in the Hohe Tauern. Some more information and pictures from this expedition you can find here. More about exploration of this cave you can read here.

Section of Feichtnerschacht (click for bigger)		Map of Feichtnerschacht (click for bigger)

G. Kuśpiel's photo from the Nambawan 2001 expedition.		G. Kuśpiel's photo from the Nambawan 2001 expedition.

Nambawan 2001 - G. Kuśpiel

In February an 8-man expedition visited Papua New Guinea. Grzegorz Kuśpiel was the leader of the expedition. They carried out exploration in the Victor Emmanuel Mountains. Two small caves were found in Mt. Botop and three Mt. Kafan. Cave ealled Imalfol Team is the deepest of them (about 400 m). Description of Imatfol team will be published in the next issue of Jaskinie.

Picos - Zbigniew Grzela

An expedition of Speleoclub Wrocław led, as usual, by Marek Jędrzejczak worked in the Picos de Europa in August 2000. Fourteen cavers took part and three others supported them. The expedition explored caves G-I 3, A-I 6, A-3 I , G-4/G-SlG-7 and F-3b but without great success. Several dying tests were made as well.

Photo P. Krzyszkowski

Kanin - Maciej Tomaszek, Tomasz Tomaszek

It was the second expedition of STJ KW-Kraków to the Kanin massif (Slovenia). Maciej Tomaszek was a leader. A team consisted of eight men. The main aim of the expedition was the cave labelled earlier as BC-I. Several new caves were found. The caves KR-3 (depth - 196 m) and KR-4 (depth -171 m) seem to be the most interesting ones. These caves consist of spacious pitches separated by narrow meanders.

Click for bigger		In Kanin massif

Bihor - winter 2001 - Wiktor Bolek

Romania was visited by five Polish cave divers and three accompanied cavers in February 2001. The main aim of the expeditions was the sump in resurgence Tauz, which had been previously explored by Czech and French divers to -70 m. The author reached the depth of -80 m. He used air, trimix and nitrox. The lump still continues.

Sump of Seven Rivers - Kazimierz Szych

The aurhor - describes Polish expedition from 20 years ago that carried out exploration in Jubillaumssacht (the Hoher Goll, Austria). During the expedition the cave was pushed down from -470 m to the final sump situated at the level of -1173 m which was named "Sump of seven rivers". Jubillaumssacht is the first minus thousand which was discovered and explored by Polish expeditions.

photo: J. Lisiecki

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