2015: In 2015, the Ario Caves Project focused their efforts on Torca del Regallon (also known as C4) last visited in 1997. Major leads explored included a sump at around 600m depth thought to connect with upstream 2/7, and a 15m waterfall marking the upstream limit of the master streamway and heading into blank space.
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2015: During a busy 2015, 50 cavers helped survey 10 km of passage in Matienzo caves, 5.5 km of which were new, and with open leads left for 2016. Water tracing at Cueva Valline showed a potential link between Valline and Reñada, with work started on connecting the two (700m new cave).
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2015: Eight members of the Imperial College Caving Club went to the Takaka Hills in New Zealand. The expedition found new passage deep in an already discovered cave (Ed’s Cellar) as well as finding several new caves (Weta than Ever, Black Helix and Red Dog/Dead Rogue) in the Canaan Downs region.
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In 1981, Xitu in northern Spain became the first cave to be extended below 1000 metres by British cavers before it finally ended at a sump.
Nearly 20 years later, a GPF-supported expedition returned to the area to try and find a connection by diving the resurgence, Cueva Culiembro.
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Castleguard Cave is Canada’s longest known cave and is renowned world-wide as the premier example of a cave which extends beneath an active icefield.
Over the course of two grueling expeditions an 845m sump was finally passed, opening up a whole new cave system beyond.
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