# CUCC Austria Expeditions: QM list conventions

# Question Mark list conventions

The format for question mark lists is QM identifier, Quality Grade, Area indicator, decription of QM. The QM numbers themselves are in the format Discoverer identifier, Year of discovery, Cave identifier, serial number. If you look at the html, you will find that the nearest survey station (without its "<cavenumber>." prefix) is included in an html comment for almost all leads.

In general, an unpushed QM will have a link from its QM number in the description to the list, and a link from the list to the relevant point in the description. If there is no link, it means that I can't yet work out where the QM is in the description, or the description doesn't yet exist :-).

## Discoverer identifiers

A
  ARGE
B
  Groupe Spéléeo de Clerval - Baume les Dames
C
  Cambridge University Caving Club

## Quality grades

A
  A fine QM - git down there and look.
B
  Not so promising, or requiring some effort (eg. a climb)
C
  Pretty cruddy, or good but very hard to get to.
V
  An aven which might be climbable, but not adequately assessed
X
  A high, wet or unsafe-looking aven unlikely to be climbed
?
  No-one writing this list actually knows!

Note that the quality grades are assigned by the explorers at the time, and that subsequent discoveries may mean that the grade is optimistic, since the lead may now drop into passage which wasn't then explored. Also, different explorers have different ideas, or different waist sizes - one man's "A-lead" may be another's "C-lead" :-(

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