Overlooked Armenia
The 3rd largest cave in Armenia has been found! Furthermore, three regions were assessed for their speleological significance for a …
Author: Henry Patton
£1,580 rasised at HE
The Scurion Raffle at Hidden Earth, won by Phil Hawcroft, raised a total of £1,229 in aid of the GPF! Thanks go to Maxine Bateman and Meg Gorry for their relentless selling tactics. A further £351 was raised by the silent auctioning of the silver Caver’s Cup, crafted and generously donated by Sam Drake.
A big thanks from the GPF to Sam, Rolf, Ceris, and everyone who bought tickets. …
Scurion raffle at HE
Scurion has generously donated another lamp to raffle at Hidden Earth in aid of The Ghar Parau Foundation. It is a Scurion basic 1500 set with one battery-module worth £625.
Raffle tickets will be on sale at Hidden Earth 2019 at the same price as last year: one for £3, two for £5.
More details here.
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Silent Auction at HE
Samantha Drake has spent a long time making a Silver Cavers Cup, which she has generously donated to the GPF. It is a fantastic, hallmarked one-off piece. The cup will displayed at Hidden Earth 2019 in the Art Salon and be sold by Silent Auction, subject to a reserve price. We hope people will like the cup and support GPF by bidding for this fantastic, one-off piece of caving artwork. Tickets and more pics.
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Winter 2019 funding
A total of 9 caving expeditions spread across 3 continents applied for GPF grant aid during the latest round of funding. The GPF Committee allocated them £5,750, plus 4 Alex Pitcher awards for young cavers going on their first expedition abroad.
Browse the archive map to find out more about the funded expeditions’ objectives.
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Junee-Florentine 2018
The Junee-Florentine is home to many of Australia’s deepest caves, which drain into the Junee Master Cave. The Master Cave …
£1,050 raised at HE
2018: The Scurion Raffle at Hidden Earth in aid of the GPF raised a total of £826, mainly thanks to the hard work of Ruth Allen, Meg Gorry and Emma Battensby. The Scurion lamp was won by Paul Gladman.
A further £224 was raised by Sam Drake who sold a number of knitted bats as part of her exhibition in the Art Salon. A big thanks extends to them and everyone for supporting the GPF.
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Golden Age of Caving
During a weekend celebrating 50 years of British cave exploration and science at home and abroad in December 2017, a series of lectures were presented at the Royal Geographical Society by leading British cavers. Many of the expeditions discussed were recipients of Ghar Parau Foundation funding.
These talks are now freely available to view at the event page.
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Klic Globin 2018
2018: The Klic Globin 2018 expedition by ICCC and JSPDT, intent on exploring deep leads in Primadona within the Tolminski Migovec Cave system, now 41.9 km long. A camp was set up, facilitating explorations to depths to -770 m in Primadona. Digging Coincidence Cave exposed a promising potential lower entrance. 2.6 km of new cave surveyed.
Read the full expedition summary
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Tratman Award
The Tratman Award is annually awarded to the best caving-related paper-based publication.
After much discussion amongst the judges, the 2017 prize was awarded to Dave Haigh and John Cordingley for their book Adventures Underground, which documents Yorkshire explorations over the last 60 years.
Read more on the judges’ decision and the rest of the shortlist. …