Ario 2024
Rebolting and resurveying the 300m shaft Tras La Jayarda led to a new extension. “Try a Little Harder” was pushed …
Tag: Spain
Matienzo 2023
Objectives: linking Four Valleys System & Fridge Door Cave; excavate a new entrance to avoid diving. These were achieved. With …
Ario 2023
The 2023 Ario expedition to the Western Massif of the Picos de Europa worked on four main caves: Cave of …
Treviso 2023
Exploration of Cueva del Nacimiento continues, discovering another 800m at the far end of the system, including one of the …
Pozo Azul 2023
Pozo Azul 2023 had 2 main objectives; firstly to radio locate high-level passages above Tipperary (6 km into the system) …
Ario Expedition 2022
2022 was a challenging and successful expedition on many fronts. Cabeza Muxa was successfully rigged and dived in under two …
Treviso 2022
Treviso 2022 extended Cueva del Nacimiento to over 16 km and new 250 m section of cave and multiple ways …
Matienzo 2022
The Matienzo Cave Project is exploring an area around Matienzo in Cantabria, Spain. The aim is to identify, explore and …
Tresviso 2021
This year’s expedition continued cave exploration in the Urdon Gorge (Tresviso, Cantabria). With the coronavirus enforcing a reduction in participants, …
Matienzo 2018
2018: In 48 years nearly 400 km of passage has been found in Matienzo, northern Spain, by the expedition. In 2018 the aim was to find new caves and to extend existing caves to help link some existing systems together. Fifty cavers took part, surveying almost 6 km of new passage and adding 168 new sites.
Read a summary of this year’s results …