2018: EAGRE18 aimed to explore caves on the Wegener Halvø peninsula of East Greenland and, where available, collect cave sediments for palaeoclimate research. The environmentally-friendlier approach involved a return sailing trip from Iceland to Greenland. After 20 km of hiking, and with the help of drones, the majority of cave leads were discovered.
Find out more on the ‘caves’ of Wegener Halvø …
2018: Cueva de al Peña Colorada is believed to be connected to ‘Sistema Huaulta’, the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere. 34 years after it was last explored by Bill Stone in 1984, a team of 25 caver divers returned 1.4 km underwater to Sump 7 to continue the exploration.
Did they find the elusive connection? …
2017: A 7 day camp was made, with an interim camp in Tipperary. The main camp was beyond Sump 3 around 8 km from the entrance. From this camp several trips were required to transport kit for a dive in S6. This sump was explored for a further 140 m to an unexpected depth of 40 m where equipment issues prevented further progress.
Read more on this cave diving exped in Spain …
The charity is embarking on a fundraising effort to enhance the size of the investment fund, with all the money raised going towards supporting British cavers carrying out science and exploration abroad.
“My first impression of the CUCC expo (Austria), just from talk, was that it would be hard.”
Alice Shackley recounts the first-hand experiences of her first caving expedition with the Cambridge University Caving Club. Alice was the recipient of an Alex Pitcher Award from the GPF – a grant awarded to enthusiastic young cavers going on their first expedition abroad. Read more …
To celebrate 50 years of pioneering British cave exploration, renowned explorers of the subterranean world will come together to share their discoveries and experiences during 4 entertaining days at the RGS, London.
A fantastic grand prize draw includes a top prize of an expenses-paid trip to Mulu National Park, Borneo!
More details on this unmissable event, incl. tickets, talks and prizes. …
2017: Tresviso 2017 focused exploration in the Cueva del Nacimiento in the Urdon Gorge (Tresviso, Cantabria). Avens at the back end were climbed, increasing the height to +534 m from the entrance, and with more leads identified. Sump 2 in Cueva del Marniosa was dived, with dry stream passage found beyond.
Read more on this year’s accomplishments …
2017: Over a three-week period this year’s expedition mounted two camping trips beyond a 1.4 km/65 m deep sump. The exploration teams each spent two nights at the remote camp and mapped a total of 1.5 km of dry passages, including finding many particularly fine calcite formations.
Read a summary of this year’s progress …
Cavers travelling abroad on expedition have had many concerns regarding their travel insurance – is cave exploration covered? Will the insurer actually pay out?
The BCA have been working hard on behalf of their members to solve this problem and are pleased to announce the launch of BCA Member Caving Cover.
Find more details and get a quote online at: https://www.bcacavingcover.co.uk …
2016: The Ario Caves Project expedition returned to the 600m deep C4 to work on several promising leads in the main streamway at the bottom of the cave. Upstream, a 30m high waterfall was climbed to gain >300m of new passages while downstream, the sump was dived for a further 80m towards the nearby 2/7.
Read a summary of this year’s progress …
