Cavers Discover Dinosaur Tracks on Italy’s Mount Pelmo
A group of mountain climbing cavers stumbled upon a series of what are likely dinosaur tracks this September while on an expedition to visit Giauli Cave. In preparation of abseiling …
Italy Caving News
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International Symposium on Mine Caves to Return in 2012
The Second International Symposium on Mine Caves is coming back to Iglesias, Sardinia-Italy in 2012. Held first in 2004, the conference acted as a catalyst for mine cave research across …
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Grotta della Monaca 2012 Calendar Released
An exquisite new calendar for 2012 has been released that features Grotta della Monaca, an extensive cave located in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. …
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5th International Workshop on Ice Caves Announced
Entirely devoted to research on ice caves, the 5th International Workshop on Ice Caves: IWIC-V will be taking place from September 16th to 23rd, 2012. Following past workshops in Romania, …
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Videos Released of Recent Italian Cave Rescue
Videos of the recent rescue of Italian caver, Anna Bonini, have been placed online by the Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico (CNSAS), the organization that responded to the accident. …
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Rescue Underway to Extract Injured Italian Caver
A cave rescue is currently underway in Serle, in the northern Italian province of Brescia. According to initial reports, Anna Bonini a 36-year-old novice caver, suffered a fractured tibia and …
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ESA Astronauts Complete Underground Training Camp
Participants in the European Space Agency training program recently spent six days underground in caves on the island of Sardinia in order to simulate the environment they will encounter in …
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Danish Couple Weds Underground
After meeting online a few years ago, a Danish couple have opted to take the plunge and get married. For Anette Kristiansen and Boskov Saerkjaer, their dream wedding had to …
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Italy’s Abisso di Malaga Fosetta Passes One Kilometre
In early June, members of the Gruppo Grotte Emilio Roner Rovereto and the Gruppo Grotte Schio Cai descended into Abisso di Malaga Fosetta on an expedition. 32 hours later they …
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Abisso Led Zeppelin Surveyed to 1030m in Depth
Abisso Led Zeppelin, a cave on the Italian side of the Canin mountains near Selva Nevea was visited between March 9-13 by a small team of Italian and Hungarian cavers. …
