News about exploration in the 5 Luglio Abyss located in the Alpi Apuane
News from the 5 Luglio Abyss, it’s a cave located on the faces of Monte Pisanino in Alpi Apuane at 1520 m on sea-level. The abyss scoutings, discovered and scouted by caving society of Val Freddana up to a drain pipe at -380 m, have been resumed after several excavations made by
Gruppo Speleologico Archeologico Livornese. This Saturday subsequently the drain pipe has been discovered a deep pitch about 100 m, that has developed in a huge joint large about 7/8 m and long in some sites 30-40 m.
At the base the pitch is closed and it’s airless, but if we go up again few meters and there is airstream, if we follow the joint between huge breakdown stones till a next new pitch. Another vertical part of 100 m of medium width about 10 x 10! The bottom is a cul de sac, the ligth constant trickle is lost in the terminal hall stones and there is no airstream. Going up we can see at the pitch top that the airstream goes in the opposite side of ours following in the joint between the breakdown stones, the next target of Saturday will be to go across in hopes to see a passage in the breakdown, we hope that the abyss keeps going in a parallel pitch to the previous.
Anyway the cave now is deep 600 m with a incredible series of jumps: the initial pitch is a P300 then there are two P100, we remember to you that the cave could be deep about 1200 m till Equi Terme risings.
The explorations are carried out by Gruppo Speleologico Archeologico Livornese on team up with many people, during the decisin moments, in the last two years with Matteo Baroni, Gianni Dellavalle, Lucia Montomoli, Daniele Guerri and Marco Menicucci ofl GSAL and also Tommaso
Biondi, Paolo Carrara, Filippo Dobrilla, Martina, David Fucile, Mariano Primierani and Yuri.
For the Gruppo Speleologico Archeologico Livornese
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Matteo Baroni
News translated by Elio Sbrocchi
