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<th align=center><font size=+2 lang="de">Feuertalsystem</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>4/T/S x</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude</b>:<blockquote>120a <span lang="de">Kacherlschacht</span> (<span lang="fr">Quelli,</span> F3) 1940m<br>
120b <span lang="fr">Velo-Tracteur</span> (F6) 1774m<br>
120c <span lang="fr">Carcajau</span> (F9) 1736m or 1731m<br>
120d <span lang="de">Altark&ouml;gerlh&ouml;hle 1670m</span><br></blockquote>
<p><b>Location</b>: In the south flank of <span lang="fr">Feuertal</span> on
the north side of <span lang="de">Sch&ouml;nberg. Kataster</span> says west
of <span lang="de">Sch&ouml;nberg,</span> east of
<span lang="de">Franzosenschacht,</span> 1626/119.
<p>From the <span lang="fr">Quelli</span> entrance, pitches p8, p19, p83,
p33, p24, p17, p5, p33, p24, p9, p33, p27, p103 lead to -400m. Here one
reaches a vast passage going up and downhill. The downstream passage emerges
at the top of an 84m pitch. Below this a winding canyon interspersed with
small pitches gives onto a 15m pitch and the end of exploration in 1976 at
-708m.
<p>The lower entrances lead by large phreatic passages to pitches which drop
into a further large horizontal level which undulates between -410m and
-500m. At -497m, this links to the main vertical system from
<span lang="fr">Quelli.</span> Using these lower ways in, exploration reached
a sump at -913m in 1977. Following the large phreatic level away from
<span lang="fr">Quelli</span> goes for about a kilometre before breaking into
the side of a colossal shaft at -414m. This is a 211m pitch to a choke at
-625m. There is a possible way on across this shaft, which is, however, 20m
in diameter.
<p>The Austrian expedition of 1985 found a 3km horizontal passage, which
brought the total length of the system to 15km.
<p>In early 1997 the length was given as 19 808 m
<span lang="de">(Markus Wiesinger,</span> personal comm.)
<p><b>Discovery</b>: Found in 1973 by
<a href="../../others/gsab/index.htm"><span lang="fr">Groupe
Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o Alpin Belge</span></a> under the name T3, but not pushed
to any depth.
<p><b>Exploration</b>: Rediscovered in July 1976 by
<span lang="fr">J.M.Piron</span> and explored from 12th to 23rd of July by
<span lang="fr">A.C.Toulon, S.C.Toulon, Lou Darbon &amp; Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o
Ragaie</span> to a depth of 708m. Later sources refer to this group as 'an
unheard of group of <span lang="fr">"Sp&eacute;l&eacute;os
Proven&ccedil;aux"'.</span><br>
The same group in 1977 discovered the two lower entrances, using them to
explore to the bottom at -913m.<br>
The Austrian expedition of 1985 set out to connect
<span lang="de">Feuertalsystem</span> to
<a href="55.htm"><span lang="de">Raucherkarh&ouml;hle</span></a> and found a
large horizontal passage, but no connection.
<p><b>References :</b>
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<dt>78.2012<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 1 (June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>,
<b><span lang="de">Totes Gebirge</span> : <span lang="fr">Description des principaux gouffres de la
zone ouest du massif</span></b>,
<span lang="fr">Jean Claude Hans &amp; Etienne Degrave</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/en/782012.htm#117">English Translation</a><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#117" lang=fr>En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
<dt>78.2013<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 2 (1978) pp 66-67, survey</cite>,
<b lang="de">Feuertalsystem</b>, <span lang="fr">Jean Claude Hans</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/782013.htm" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
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<p>The above description is translated mainly from these references by Andy
Waddington and Jill Gates.
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