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Vote
for your favourite Caver!
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Hurry and vote for your favourite
expedition member in this, our completely non-beauty pageant.
We
have 14 delicious expedition members to show you, so there
should be something for everybody! This also opens up
for some very interesting forum discussions, so please,
do step in, and enjoy the show! Then choose your favourite...
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 Pretty
women, droughts and noisy cavers.
It was a late
start and already dark as we arrived at the cave, having lost Charlie
en route, and finding him after shouting his name as loud as possible.
As we entered the cave, Gustavo expressed his reservations at the
rather small entrance. Charlie
was a little out of sorts, suffering from a bout of 'Chichi's Revenge',
contracted in the polluted stream-way, so he rested once we were a
little bit inside the cave, leaving the rest of us to proceed.
Downstream was
fun. It was a really interesting passage with collapsed bedding planes,
deep pools to traverse around, a small boulder-choke, some interesting
side passages, traverses and cascades - in fact everything a caver
could ask for, except a cold beer! Charlie and Pete caught up, just
as Jonathan and Gustavo finished marking the route back through the
boulder-choke, and the team explored boldly on! After a final side
passage, Charlie and Marcus headed out; Charlie still not fully recovered
from 'Chichi's Revenge' and Marcus denying anything to do with being
on time for the date with Anageli!
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February
26:
Cueva
del aire gallery.
These
are some of the images brought recently by Jonathan and
his team that describe nicely this new cave full of promises.
You will be able to meet some monsters as well as some
cavers surveying and trying to figure out how to solve
a water problem for a thirsty town.
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Interview:
Anthony William Revell
"Caves can be like women: you find a passage,
but there's a boulder stopping you to go through, but
you can see that there is more way to go. She is teasing
you. Then you dig your way out, and it can lead you to
success, or to another blocked passage."
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Cuetzalan
is located in the Puebla state of Mexico,
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About
the expedition
Cuetzalan is a small market town in the mountains to the
East of Mexico City. It's population is mostly Indian from Nahuatl
and Totonac origin which makes the area all the more fascinating
and historically it's very rich.
Cuetzalan
produces mainly coffee and wild vanilla as well. Nevertheless
all these are only some of the faces we can see on the outside.
The innerworld
of the area contains a large system of river caves, which have
the potential to be the most extensive in Latin America...
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