Guide Books for France

[Chris L]

Any english guidebooks for caves in France other than Vercors caves Vol 1?

 

[Ian P]

I cannot help regarding books.
However I have had reasonable success taking a picture of a page in foreign book, then searching the picture with “Google Lense” to extract the text and then use Google translate.

It is a lot simpler than it sounds, trust me 😂

 

[wellyjen]

I cannot help regarding books.
However I have had reasonable success taking a picture of a page in foreign book, then searching the picture with “Google Lense” to extract the text and then use Google translate.

It is a lot simpler than it sounds, trust me 😂

Then use the Braemoor French caving glossary to translate the caving specific words in to the appropriate English ones.
https://braemoor.co.uk/crolles/vocab.shtml

 

[langcliffe]

The Braemoor site also contains translations for many of the route descriptions in the Dent de Crolles system.

 

[Ian Ball]

http://speleo-vercors.org/index.html useful but my knowledge of French caving is very limited, so I cant say if it helps or not.

 

[ChrisB]

searching the picture with “Google Lense” to extract the text and then use Google translate

Google Lens will now do the translation itself, you don't have to copy it into Translate. It's quite startling to be in a country where you don't read the language, photograph a sign and immediately see the English words overlaid on it!

 

[snebbit]

Grottes et Gouffres de Haute Savoie is in French but has QR codes on each trip entry which take you to English PDFs