Dear friends,I am an Italian researcher who is studying the history of an important cave near Rome.The cave is called "Voragine di Monte Spaccato" (also Mons Scissus") and is located in the municipality of Tivoli. It's a big slit about a hundred meters deep.I found references about an English explorer (archaeologist?) who in 1867 or 1877 tried to go down to the bottom of the cave with a kind of metal cage.But we could not find the name of this ancient British explorer.Can you help us?Kind regards,Lorenzo GrassiRome
So far I have found no note of caves done in 1894, but Martel probably climbed in the Alps as in 1895 he published with Lorria Massif de la Bernina. This same year 1895 he attended a Geographical Congress in London to read a paper, and took the opportunity to make his famous British campaign, visiting first Peak Cavern and Speedwell, then going over to see the three subterranean rivers of Ireland mentioned in Kinahan's book, the Cladagh (Ulster), Cong, and Fergus (Clare). Here he made the first exploration of the Marble Arch, the descent of Noon's Hole two pitches, and finished by surveying Mitchelstown New Cave. Then on 1st August he made the amazing descent of Gaping Gill (see A.J., Vol. XVIII.), 270 ft. rope-ladder below 60 ft. of double rope, with a knot in the life-line, and his only experienced support his wife at the telephone, yet read his paper in London next day.
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