Category: Andara

Eastern Massif, Picos de Europa, Northern Spain

Tresviso 2023

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…
Read more

Tresviso 2023 Mini May Trip

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…
Read more

Tresviso 2022 Report published

The expedition report now available to download.

Sara 2022

Tresviso 2022 Expedition Overview

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…
Read more

More videos

There are some fantastic caving videos out there on the web, excellent resolution, interesting, great music, commentary and annotations… the following videos are not them.

Things to do in a Pandemic (Part 2)

Following on from Things to do in a Pandemic (part 1) another area I have been working on over the past >2 years are updates of the survey repository. In 1996, when I first went out to Tresviso with LUSS, we had no real information on the caves other than the LUSS journals and a…
Read more

Tresviso 2021

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…
Read more

Things to do in a Pandemic (part 1)

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…
Read more

2019 Summary

A distinct lack of enthusiasm from people for writing up the expedition….. A post trip summary follows: The Tresviso expedition returned back to the UK last week and the following is a brief summary: Cueva del Nacimiento – Parting Friends In the entrance series of Nacimiento is an area called the Road to Wigan Pier…
Read more