==> Cave visit is descent into a new world >>From World Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 23 Oct. 2005.By Cathy Shouse | News SentinelMammoth Cave in Kentucky is the worldοΏ½s longest, with 350 miles of surveyed passageways.If the thrill of amusement parks, museum exhibits and glitzy tourist spots is wearing thin, consider taking a trip to a geological wonder οΏ½ KentuckyοΏ½s Mammoth Cave National Park.Pine forests cover some of the 53,000-acre park, filling the air with fragrance. Wild turkeys and Eastern white-tailed deer frequently shoot out from the underbrush and into the open for visitors to see.In the cave, guides warn visitors to watch the ceilings for cave crickets that can grow four inches long and bats that sometimes swoop down from their perches. When the lights are turned off dozens of feet below the surface, the pitch-blackness is a reminder of how small humans really are in a big universe. The total silence is an experience not to be missed.Source & Details: http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/living/12951724.htm http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=3093
==> Trapped Bulgarian Speleologists Started Ascend (Sofia News Agency) >>From World Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 23 Oct. 2005.Teodor Kisimov and Konstantin Stoilov who set a new record by descending further than any Bulgarian has ever been have started climbing out of the world's deepest cave Krubera.The two have passed one of the flooded galleries at 1,400 meters below the surface and are going for the 1,200-meter-deep base camp. Svetlomir Stanchev, who has already spent two days in the base camp said that the melting snow did not obstruct the movement of the two.Earlier on Thursday it was reported that the Bulgarian speleologists who have been trapped in Krubera in Georgia are expected to climb out by October 26.The joint Bulgarian-Ukrainian expedition was expected to last until October 28, but will most likely be ended earlier due to the bad weather in the region, the Bulgarian Federation of Speleology announced on its website.Source & Details: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=54118 http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=3092 ==> Great X Photos Needed (NSS Forum) >>From World Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 23 Oct. 2005.Have you been to Great X in the last few years? Did you take photos? Did they turn out pretty well? Care to share? The NSS needs some good cave and surface photos to enhance the Great X Web page http://www.caves.org/greatx/ . We'll give full credit to the photographers. Please e-mail copies to Scott Fee at [email protected] Thanks! (Please circulate this request widely among cavers.) Source: http://www.caves.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=406 http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=3094
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