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<title>1979: Andy's report for BCRA Caves &amp; Caving</title>
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<center><font size=-1>CTS 80.1741: BCRA Caves &amp; Caving 8 (May 1980) p 30 [ISSN 0142-1832]</font>
<h2>Cambridge University Caving Club - Austria 1979</h2></center>
<p>In August 1979 eight members of the club returned to the Loser Plateau,
Totes Gebirge in Austria to continue the exploration of Eislufth&ouml;hle,
which we were forced to abandon due to a car accident after reaching about
-350m in 1978.
<p>Just inside the entrance our problems restarted in the 80m Plugged shaft
where the ice and snow had completely re-organised itslelf again,
necessitating time-consuming rebolting. After this, the next pitches of 13,
19, 14, 12, 30, 11, 48m were rigged in one trip. The next trip rigged two
short pitches and then explored a new route from the -280m level. This
rejoined the stream canyon found last year after easy pitches of 17m and 9m
landing in a small chamber seen from below in 1978. Much muddy traversing and
a very muddy sloping 26m pitch led to our 1978 terminus (now determined to be
at -331m) and here two ways on were possible; straight down sounded wet, so a
further muddy traverse was followed to a 20m pitch descending the far side of
a rock wall into a dry chamber. This was clean and a further climb of 5m led
to an awkward meander descending to the head of a rather sharp 23m pitch at
the base of which an increasingly tight and nasty rift led on. After an
extrememly tight section, a window onto a pitch was reached; this seemed to
be about 20m to a boulder floor and rose above in a high aven. This pitch was
never descended as the narrow rift was smaller than expected for the main way
on.
<p>Straight on down from 1978's terminus proved larger than had been expected
from above, dropping into a huge cross rift with a remarkable pinnacle on the
far side. The pitch was 28m to a ledge, then 33m in a smaller, damper shaft.
Below this, a climb escaped the water and a traverse led to a dry shaft, with
the stream still audible. Twenty four metres later, a small ledge formed a
useful place to rebelay the rope, now showing signs of rubbing above and the
rope ran out 19m later. A sharp climb of 5m led to another ledge and the
awkward takeoff for a 24m pitch rejoining the water part way down. The rope
was too short for the next pitch but from the end, the pitch clearly landed
on a flat floor in a huge rift passage at around -500m. Hopes were very high
for a major continuation but four days of rain caused to abandon our only
attempt to continue and we were running out of time.
<p>A massive pushing, surveying, derigging trip was our last chance and the
new pitch was bottomed at 17m but the huge passage led on to a muddy boulder
climb and a pitch down to the inevitable but impressive sump at -506m approx.
With mixed feelings of elation and disappointment we took photgraphs and then
derigged to -210m, emerging shattered after 16 hours. The pot was fully
derigged two days later and the plateau cleared of gear for our return.
<p>There are still several loose ends, most notably the undescended pitch
beyond the tight rift at about -390m and another undescended pitch at -140m.
Also, a totally untouched wet shaft at -150m and a couple of upstream
continuations. After three years of learning about continental caving, all
spent in the same pot, however, C.U.C.C. is moving on to new areas, leaving
80% of the plateau still untouched. Full details of our earlier explorations
are in "Cambridge Underground" <a href="../1976/report.htm">1977</a>, <a
href="../1977/report.htm">1978</a>, and <a
href="../1978/report.htm">1979</a>. A complete description of Eislufthohle
will appear with our <a href="report.htm">1979 report</a> in "Cambridge
Underground, Journal of C.U.C.C. and exC.S." for 1980, to be published in
late spring when large surveys should also be available.
<p align=right>A.E.R.Waddington
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1979 Expedition info:<br>
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<a href="report.htm">Expo report, Cambridge Underground 1980</a><br>
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Eislufth&ouml;hle - <a href="descnt.htm">from Descent 44</a><br>
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Nick Thorne's write-up in <a href="792026.htm">Belfry Bulletin 378</a><br>
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Odkrycie i eksploracja Eislufth&ouml;hle - <a href="811412.htm">original
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