During the final week of the yearly Anialarra (PSM) expedition the team discovered a new cave named sima regalo. This cave starts almost immediatly with a deep pitch.

The following clips show the first steps in this new cave after 2 days of digging and stabilizing the slope leading to the top of the pitch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOrDQFIFf7Q

To be viewed with sound so you can hear the falling of the stones

We only descendend one of three branches of this pitch. We ended at end of rope around -146m on the last day of the 2016 expedition.

The remainging is for 2017. Prospects are good and we hope to descend to the river, situatated at approx -400m/-450m. So still a lot of exploration fun the follow next year.

BR

Dagobert

Excellent!       

Brill - just like one of our finds  .  Congratulations

Tr?s dificile, je ne parle pas le grenouille.  Can anybody translate?

rhychydwr1 said:

Tr?s dificile, je ne parle pas le grenouille.  Can anybody translate?

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Sima Regalo : Nouvelle d?couverte sur Anialarra  - Sima Regalo : New discovery on Anialarra
Apr?s une journ?e de desob  - After one day of desobstruction
L'expert parle : 80m - The expert says: 80m
Jet de pierre traditionnel : Traditional drop of a stone
L'expert r?fl?chit! -  The expert reflects
L'expert se corrige (un peu) - The expert corrects himself (a little bit)
200m, minimum - 200m minimal
un jour plus tard - one day later
Premiers pas dans le puits de l'adrenaline - First steps in the "adrenaline pitch"
Regarde, ?a va loin vers la gauche aussi - look it also goes very far to the left
Ca tombe jusq'au collecteurs : It drops towards the river
encore plus tard - later on
Selfie avant l'exploration - Selfie before the explo
Lumiere! - Light
L'expert est satisfait : c'est ok - The expert is pleased: it's ok
Quelques heures plus tard, on atteidn un palier a -145m: A few hours latere we reach a balcony at -145m
on est sur un grand palier - We are one big balcony
avec un trou noir ? cot? : with a black hole at one side
pas encore j?t? une caillou dedans - we did not yet throw a stone in it
Mercie on arrive - thank you we are coming
Encore un Selfie en bas - another selfie at the bottom

                      Credits

Ps The name of the cave "Sima Regalo" can be translated as "Cave of the godsend". The name of the cave is in spanish because the cave entrance is on spanisch ground. The names of the pitches (and later on rooms,...) are (will be) named in French.

Congratulations. Well done to the team of explorers. The sound of that stone faaaaaaaaalllling faaalllllling falling was incredible