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Izgubljeni Raj Migovec 2011

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Edale Mountain Rescue Team

Incident #16Sunday 06/03/2011 13:15Fallen ClimberThe team were called to a fallen climber at FroggattEdge. Whilst soloing at the Downhill Racer area of thecrag he fell off and suffered a head injury whichinduced a short seizure. He was given medicalattention by one of our paramedics in conjunction

with an EMAS paramedic. After which he wasevacuated to the top of the crag and flown to the

NGH in Sheffield by Helimed 72.

(2 broken heels)

(10 broken bones)

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Talk Structure

Tolminski Migovec

Where? Why? Exploration history

Living on the Mountain; Living in the Caves

Exploration Findings (Vrtnarija)

Insomnia: The Deep Wet Lead

The Serpentine, Let na Drugi Svet & Lower Pleasures

Kamikaze: To the East

Conclusion & The Future

Did Someone Mention the Connection?

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R

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Ravne912m

Tolminski Migovec1868m

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27.86km total cave passage (2011)

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History of Migovec

Exploration 19742006 coveredin 'The Hollow Mountain'

PDFs Free & online, printed copies

at cost (6.31+P&P) from Lulu.com 2007: New caves on Western

Edge of plateau, Kill 'em All

2008: Rerig. M2 (-350m),concerted efforts pushing CaptainKangaroo

http://union.ic.ac.uk/caving/slovenia

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2009+0.9km

(CAMP)

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2010+2.2km

(CAMP)

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Living on the Mountain

~1kmAscent

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Mig in 1977

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Mig in 2008

The Bivi

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The Bivi

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Snow in July?!

C X R (2003 2010 2011)C X R (2003 2010 2011)

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Camp X-Ray (2003,20102011)Camp X-Ray (2003,20102011)

-550m-550m

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2011 Innovations

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2x AA-batteryFairy Lights

2x 1 Slippers(Primark)

New ToothpasteHiding Location

'4-season' (isobutane)Gas Stove

2011 Innovations

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'Plenty Comfort' Camp

Rotating 2x2-person 'hot bedding camp'Mostly 2-night 3-day camps (2 work days)

12-cavers continuous @ full capacity

2009: 'Republica Palma de Coco'

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2010: 'Insomnia'58m vertical extension (-802m)

2003 'Red Cow'

2009 'Republica'

DownstreamSump (perched) Can see 30-odd

metres downrift + cascades

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Insomnia: The Deep Wet Lead

~45 hr return from pushing front camp

(Insomnia -802m Day Dreamers -861m Penguin's Egg -871m Winter's Journey

-888m) Confined passage with stream (wet feet!)

[Not a good place to be during a rain storm]

Great 'Yorkshire' Caving

-885m

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Mud deposits Photo

-888m

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Too-tight Rift Photo

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Unhappy Ending?

3 trips down here this summer Wet route becomes impassably tight (@ -875m)

Dry bypass enters chamber with significant silt deposits,sound of water through too-tight rift

Draught emerges from too-tight rift and follows 70inclined bedding NNW

Hypothesise we're above a (perched?) sump that backs up

Bedding plane squeeze force-able to a sump bypass?

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Migovec's Usual Tricks

Green Back (Vrtnarija, -297m) Stalemate (Vrtnarija, -659m)

Water Table at

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Water Table at+890m Sea Level ?

Winter Journey (2011) Pencil SumpWater Hope

Good not Grand(Blind Bedding)

Wonderstuff /Earthquake Way

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Prospects?

250m separation between the two sumps inSysmig & probable (currently inaccessible)sump level in Vrtnarija

Geology 'best guess' is water table dipping at~15 from SE NW

We have deep leads in Vrtnarija from 2004

that are 800m NNW of the hypothesisedsump ~100m more depth potential

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The Serpentine & Let na Drugi Svet

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The Long Water

Let na Drugi Svet

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( Flight to Another World )

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LowerQueen's

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Pleasures

A dig that went!

Bedchamber

CheetahSwing

Kamikaze

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Kamikaze

M16

M2GW

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1.38kmNew Passage

Stuck in Paradise (P69m)

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Stuck in Paradise (P69m)

Bosch's Uneo

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Bosch 'do it' UK

A Caver's Uneo

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( 900g Bare Weight when clean! )

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Total Extent of allKnown cave passage

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The Vrtnarija Slab

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The Vrtnarija Slab

1.1km

0.2km

To the East! - 1.38km

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Primadona

Sysmig (Deep)M2

GW

CaverStats

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CaverStats

29 cavers this summer (Aged 1959) 14 UK-based cavers, 14 Slovene, 1 joint

Made 77 caver-trips

21 cavers spent 77 caver-nights atunderground camp

Exploration occured over a 14-day period

First Expedition

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First ExpeditionFour undergraduates on their first expedition

Majority made it to underground camp & pushed cave at >500m deep

Training & building experience more important than metres!

NiaJonny Clare

Ari

SpeleoStats

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SpeleoStats

20092011 Doubled Length of Vrtnarija All by exploration deeper than -350m, vast majority on

overnight camping trips

System Migovec & Vrtnarija now #5 & #6 longest in

Slovenia (#7 and #10 deepest) If joined they are 22.6km (Longest in Slovenia... )

Vrtnarija: 2010 2011

8796m / 807m 11025m / 888m

Sysmig: (2008) 11.49km / 970m

2010k

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(CAMP)

20112 2k

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+2.2km

Did Someone Mention the Connection?

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Vrtnarija to Kavkna Jama: 2575m separation Connection has been major aim since 2008

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Izgubljeni Raj 2011 (Derig) Team

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