<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html lang=en> <head> <title> 1623:143 </title> </head> <body> <center><table border=0 width=100%> <tr><th align=left><font size=+2>143</font></th> <th align=center><font size=+2>Weiße Warze Schacht I</font></th> <th align=right><font size=+2>3/S +</font></th></tr> </table></center> <p>NB. The above name is provisional, since its not really my prerogative to name it, but it should have a name really. <p><b>Altitude:</b> 1711m, Depth 124m <p><b>Location:</b> The Nipple, (aka "Weiße Warze") E 36048.7 N (52)81489.0 <p>The square shaped entrance lies just below (22m vertically at 34m on 158°) the nipple at the end of the ridge running SSW from Vorderer Schwarzmooskogel. The first pitch starts after a short climb down boulders. From here light may be seen entering from another entrance 143b. The pitch of 20m lands on a small ledge and a short freeclimb leads to a traverse over wedged blocks. The next pitch of 10m is rigged over the edge of the last of these and brings one to a balcony at the start of a 23m shaft. Another clean, almost circular shaft (19m) follows, to a climb of 6m down wedged boulders. The passage now narrows to a small vadose canyon with a stream in it, but soon turns vertical at an 8m pitch, followed quickly by one of 18m. At the foot of this final shaft, the stream flows down a rift, approximately 10m deep, but too narrow to follow. Much hammering here achieved little progress, but could be heard clearly in passages leading from above the Big Pitch in <a href="41/41.htm#bigpitch">Stellerweghöhle</a>. <p><b>Exploration:</b> CUCC 1983, 1984 <hr> <!-- LINKS --> <img alt=">" src="../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="index.htm#143">Schwarzmooskogel ridge area</a><br> <img alt=">" src="../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="../indxal.htm">Full Index</a><br> <img alt=">" src="../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="../areas.htm">Other Areas</a><br> <img alt=">" src="../../icons/lists/0.png"> <a href="../index.htm">Back to Expedition Intro page</a> </body> </html>