[svn r4382] Corrections and minor updates.

noinfo/smkridge/40.htm

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 <li>40g&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Einstieg zur Hans Pfandl-Halle (close to 
 Lerchenschacht)
 <li>40h&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Eistunnel(Elephant)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1635m
-<li>40s&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gr&uuml;er Eingang&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1652m<br>
+<li>40s&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gr&uuml;ner Eingang&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1652m<br>
 Other SMKHS entrances:
 <li>40i&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lärchenschacht
 <li>40j&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stellerweghöhle
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ summer) tube about 5m in diameter is the main entrance ("Hauptportal" -
 been very cold. Continue along past some big holes and slightly downhill
 (one 5m step down). After about 180m(?) you reach the area of numerous
 entrances in a row There is the small Gr&uuml;ner Eingang (40s), 2 larger
-entrances ('Eistunnel' and 'Nichts50'), a small blocked entrance , and
+entrances ('Eistunnel' and 'Nichts50'), a small blocked entrance, and
 finally, where the path ends abruptly and unambiguously the "new"
 entrance (40e, Brennerbeserlschluf), also strongly draughting. This is
 between one and a half and two hours from the car park.
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ between one and a half and two hours from the car park.
 1983, extended to 2500m by a German group by 1985. The system is mainly
 horizontal, though tackle is needed to explore it fully, and crampons are
 necessary in parts, because of the substantial quantities of ice in the
-cave. Was extended by the Germans who work in the area in the early eighties,
+cave. Was extended by the Germans who worked in the area in the early eighties,
 who suggested then that there was potential for extension vertically.
 Subsequently linked via a 30m pitch to
 <a href="88.htm">L&auml;rchenschacht</a> (1623/88) which in turn was
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ The continuation is the '<b>Halle des Schiefen Turms</b>', where the
 '<b>Wahnsinnsch&auml;chte</b>' branches off on the west. It was thought that
 this was blocked by ice. However, over a wall of ice one reaches the 130 by
 75 by 50 m Schneevulkanhalle, on the eastern wall of which rises a steep
-snowslope flowing from the '<b>Koenigsschachts</b>' (entrance 6). The chamber
+snowslope flowing from the '<b>K&ouml;nigsschachts</b>' (entrance 6). The chamber
 with its very impressive ice formations can also be reached via the
 '<b>Brennerbeselschluf</b>' (entrance 5). At its northern end a climb reveals
 the easterly-running '<b>Kalten Gang</b>' and the parallel
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ found adequate in 1998.
 
 <p><center><img alt="plan - 12k gif" width=600 height=540 src="i/40svh.png"></center>
 
-<p> The 50m Koenigschacht (40f) entrance is the source of the snow slope
+<p> The 50m K&ouml;nigschacht (40f) entrance is the source of the snow slope
 and comes in here. It is often full of snow but was open in 1999 and so
 was surveyed (by ARGE).
 
@@ -200,15 +200,17 @@ into large passage <A HREF="../../smkridge/40/cucc.htm#elephant">elephantengang<
 
 <p>Right next to it is an icefall coming in from above
 [<a href="../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-02"
-name="qC000040-02">C0000-40-02</a> C] (Apparently explored by GSCB in early 80s for ~40m). 40m round the wall of the chamber is a rubble run-in, iced on the top half. This was climbed by Haines (1998) and Atkinson (1999), as well as the GSCB. At the top is a wet boulder choke that definately doesn't go, but the GSCB plan shows a narrow rift on the right markwd 'tight'.
+name="qC000040-02">C0000-40-02</a> C] (Apparently explored by GSCB in early 80s for ~40m). 40m round the wall of the chamber is a rubble run-in, iced on the top half. This was climbed by Haines (1998) and Atkinson (1999), as well as the GSCB. At the top is a wet boulder choke that definately doesn't go, but the GSCB plan shows a narrow rift on the right marked 'tight'.
 
 <p>Halfway up this slope on the left is the narrow entrance to <a href="../../smkridge/40/cucc.htm#pov">Persistence of Vision</a>.
 
 <p>20m further round another couple of icefalls come in. Both are about
 8-10m and vertical [<a href="../../smkridge/40/qm.htm#C000040-03"
 name="qC000040-03">C0000-40-03</a> A]. GSCB plan shows they have climbed
-up here to find a 20m pitch beyond into narrow rift - presumably choked
-or too tight.
+up here to find a 20m pitch beyond into narrow rift.  Their survey doesn't
+make it clear how it ends.  CUCC bolted up the left side of the left icefall
+in 2000 to find an ice water duck leading to a pitch series (<b>Mission
+Impossible</b>).  The duck was dry in 2001, but back again in 2002.
 
 <p>50m further round (downslope) the ice drops away steeply under the
 wall. A line is advisable for the descent. 20m down, the ice slope peters
@@ -266,7 +268,7 @@ because of a lack of contact and some misunderstanding between the groups
 involved. However, in 1997 a chance encounter (at the International
 Congress) by Wookey with Denis Motte, of the <a
 href="../../others/gscb/index.htm">G.S.Clerval,</a> led to renewed
-contacts with one group who explored this area, and Thilo M&uuml;ller or
+contacts with one group who explored this area, and Thilo M&uuml;ller of
 ARGE has contacted the leaders of other groups and obtained all the rest
 of the 1980s information that survives. This is being merged into a
 coherent set of information which will guide necessary resurvey work to
@@ -274,7 +276,7 @@ complete the picture.
 
 <p><b>Exploration:</b>
 <ul>
-<li>Discovered and main passages explored in 1929 by Ausseer cavers, and surveyed  in 1938 by O Schauberger and U Czornig.
+<li>Discovered and main passages explored in 1929 by Ausseer cavers, and surveyed in 1938 by O Schauberger and U Czornig.
 <li>Further exploration 1953, Sektion Ausseerland.
 <li>Wilfried Lorenz, Franz Lindenmayr with Nuremburg and Munich cavers
 discover the Schneevulkanhalle at the beginning of July 1978 (not yet
@@ -296,7 +298,7 @@ The length comes from:<br>
 VfHM 1980s survey - 693m: Original part of cave plus extensions<br>
 VfHO 1991 survey - 374m: Schneevulkanhalle from 40e entrance<br>
 CUCC 1998-9 surveys - 751m: Heaven and Hell and persitence of vision SVH extensions<br>
-Arge 1999 surveys - 130m: K&ouml;nigsschat and Gr&uuml;ner Eingang
+Arge 1999 surveys - 130m: K&ouml;nigsschacht and Gr&uuml;ner Eingang
 </ul>
 
 <p>Stellerwegh&ouml;hle in turn is connected to