<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- Only put one cave in this file --> <!-- If you edit this file, make sure you update the websites database --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> </head> <body> <cave> <non_public>False</non_public> <caveslug>1623-140</caveslug> <official_name>Schwa Schacht 140</official_name> <area>1623</area> <area>2b</area> <kataster_code>2/S x </kataster_code> <kataster_number>140</kataster_number> <unofficial_number></unofficial_number> <entrance> <entranceslug>1623-140</entranceslug> <letter></letter> </entrance> <explorers>CUCC 1983</explorers> <underground_description>Shaft entrance is 9m by 6m, with first pitch 15m to boulders. A 6m pitch is immediately followed by a 10m drop to a sloping boulder floor. From the end of this, a 5.5m drop reaches a longer boulder slope, which leads into a canyon at 90°. Down this is a longer pitch split into 10 and 10.5m sections by a small ledge, landing on a very large boulder. Over the boulder are two ways on.</p><p>Through a squeeze is a shaft 10m deep to floor with <b>continuing hole and a further shaft to one side, neither of which were descended, despite a draught coming out through the squeeze</b>.</p><p>The way followed is a 5m pitch from the big boulder, to a boulder false floor. At the end of this, the roof rises into a high aven and an 11m pitch drops to a flat boulder floor next to another huge block. A hole down gives a 7m drop next to stacked rocks and a way on across boulders leads to a final 8m pitch.</p><p>Forward over boulders passes under another high aven from which water falls. A short climb down leads to where this water disappears into a scrofulous slot, at a depth of 95m.</p><p>The cave is in a key position, almost directly above the Breeze Block area of <a href="161/chile.htm">Chile,</a> in Kaninchenhöhle. However, these passages lie between 250 and 300m below the 140 entrance, so this is probably not a potential easy way in.</underground_description> <equipment></equipment> <references></references> <survey>? grade 3. In 1983 logbook (but not scanned?)</survey> <kataster_status></kataster_status> <underground_centre_line></underground_centre_line> <notes></notes> <length></length> <depth></depth> <extent></extent> <survex_file></survex_file> <description_file></description_file> <url>1623/140.htm</url> </cave> </body> </html>