Voragine du Giaset

pete_the_caver

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Does anyone have any information about this cave, Voragine du Giaset (Voragine del Giaset in Italian) in the Commune of Lanslebourg in the Haute Maurienne, Savoie, France?  This cave was at the time, when my only source of information was published, the deepest cave of the Val di Susa at 232m deep, 600m long and ending in a sump but with a depth potential of 1000m.  The cave is located at an altitude of 2700m on the slopes of Malamont above the Lac du Mont Cenis and from what little information I can find has been exclusively explored by Italian cavers.

Hopefully someone might have a survey and information of other caves in the area?  As things stand, there appears to be little known in this area as there appear to be no French cavers in this part of the Alps.  Part of the reason maybe that all the maps in the few books the cover the Savoie show the Haute Maurienne and Vanoise as having metamorphic strata with very little karst.  However, even close to roads one can see open cave entrances and there is was even a cement works in SOLLI?RES with its associated quarry (containing a resurgence as big as OFD)
 

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pete_the_caver

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First one 'can't be found' but the second looks interesting. Looks like google translator will be getting more use. Thanks mate


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pancho

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We are a group of caver, from Aix les Bains, Savoie, we just started exploration in this area and are open to collaboration with anyone interested by caving in Haute Maurienne
 

Leclused

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Some info from other sites :

http://cds73.free.fr/cavites.php?file=maurienne
https://www.persee.fr/doc/karst_0751-7688_1984_num_3_1_2072  (Page 69)
http://www.gsptorino.it/grotte/gr_028_1965.htm (page13)
http://www.gsptorino.it/grotte/gr028/028_20-21d.htm (map)

Hope this helps a bit
 

Diego DRAGO

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Hi to All !

Well, I am writing from Turin-Italy.

I was searching in the web, some news about the Voragine of Giaset, under the King of the MontCenis Lake : the Malamot Fortress !

And, I am arriving here in this Forum in UKcaving.com, what a beatiful surprise !

I already have read and analized the italian news about.

The first post here was in 2016 and the last in August 2019, the past summer, with some very interesting links in order to continue it. 

I have analyzed these last links, I have imported wpts on Google Earth and on a dedicated software which I use with my gps.

I know very well the Area of MontCenis Lake, especially the road that runs up to the Malamot mostly where there are the military barracks, and where there are the caves and the Voragine too, in the only plan.

We are planning to explore them this summer.

I have a question about it : Has anyone been there?

I saw a photo. Probably the entrance to the Chasm. Even if it doesn't correspond to the French waypoint.

Waiting a kindly reply, have a nice night ! Thanks there !

 
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