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)
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)