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Entering the Sistine Chapel

Penguin

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In November and December 2010 the Creature's End aven in the further reaches of Cascades Rising Cave in Co. Fermanagh was climbed.  Although no high-level passages were discovered the climb was very pretty and we terminated it in the beautiful Sistine Chapel...

(Note: there are no further leads from the Sistine Chapel; cavers are requested to be clean and careful while climbing as the entire extension is lined with abundant flowstone and formations.)

The top of the climb...
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The Sistine Chapel...
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Formations in the Sistine Chapel...
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Penguin

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Technically that's not the Sistine Chapel...  ;)

We had thought of the first ledge as Creature's Beginning (before we got to the Chapel), the name didn't make it on to the survey. 
 
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