In just under 2 weeks the members of the 2023 expedition, to Tresviso, will be leaving the UK by various means to travel across to Spain. All being well there will be blog updates from both the top camp and bottom ‘camp’. Overview & brief history: The Picos de Europa is a range of mountains…
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Sunday 28th May 2023 Cueva de la Marniosa – Forgott Aven 1 Return to Marniosa, this time to go straight to the end of Extra Caverns, Forgott Passage. Here there are 2 small avens to climb. Fast progress to chamber just before the passage and things slowed from here. When this part had first been…
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Currently sat at the bar (10.30am) at Manchester Airport, after a hectic morning trying to get over to catch a flight to Santander for our low key May Tresviso trip. Initially 6 people down to 3 by the night before. Cancelled train part way down the road, no other trains getting in to Manchester on…
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Two excellent videos from the diving undertaken by Chris Jewell, on this years’ expedition:
The Tresviso 2022 expedition just returned from Spain a few weeks back. A very busy and successful trip which left little time for updating the blog (again). The following is a summary and the full report will follow shortly. Overview:The 2022 expedition was to continue with ongoing exploration in Andara (Eastern Massif) of the Picos…
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Tresviso 2022 Eastern Massif, Picos de Europa, Northern Spain 1st September 2022– 20th September 2022 Overview & brief history: The Picos de Europa is a range of mountains 20km inland from the northern coast of Spain, forming a Westerly extension of the Cantabrian Mountains. It consists of three main areas, the Western, Central and…
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Despite best efforts the 2021 expedition did take place with continued exploration in the Cueva del Nacimiento cave in the Urdon Gorge (Tresviso, Cantabria). Expeditions in the previous years have been slowly extending the cave up through the mountain range, with the intention of trying to connect the cave with the known deeper pot holes…
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With no expedition in 2020 I was left with plenty of time to go through reams and reams of data, surveys and photos from the past 10 years of the expedition. About 10 years ago on one of the expeditions I took a small video camera, with the intention of creating a video log of…
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Cowshead Cavern (or Cueva de la Cabeza de Vaca) was discovered in 1986 by a L.U.S.S. / S.W.C.C. expedition. A small resurgence caves leads to some high level chambers and in one corner a calcited ‘cows’ skull was discovered. Fast forward a few years and the skull was extracted for analysis and research. It transpires…
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