Exploration in the Monti Lepini (Lazio, Italy): -900 at the Ouso del Patriglio
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
The news are from Andrea Benassi, on the blog Lepinia
(http://blog.libero.it/Lepinia/ in Italian) it is possible to read the whole report on the exploration at the Ouso del Pratiglio and more. News translated by Giuseppe Moro
Good exploration news from the Lepini mountains (Lazio, Italy) front, the last descent dropped us directly at -900 meters; we stopped at the top of a shaft with a large lake at its base and a new (inundated) passage that goes on.
The main problem is always water, that is not of course decreasing, but increasing to an amount hard to face. In the whole cave the only place we could find to camp, without a lake or a waterfall, is at -700 meters: it is as wide as a Smart car and of course water is at hand, just outside the tent.
All this damp causes just a bit of hydrophobia, so we are going on with the usual two-men team (Paolo Turrini and Andrea Benassi), by now so rotten to flow over it.
Next appointment will be in september, hoping that we will find less water and more people to help.
