Scintilena - English Version

From a news of Felippo Felici, translation and integration by Renato Dalle Mule.
The caving clubs of Ferrara and Vittorio Veneto have wrote down some new exploration plans for the Bus de la Genziana (Genziana Cave: genziana is a mountain flower - Gentiana Lutea L.- n.d.r.), the most known cave of the “Pian Cansiglio”. Pian Cansiglio is a limestone plateau which lies at the border between the regions of Veneto and Friuli - Venezia Giulia, in NE Italy.
The Genziana, as it is also simply known, was discovered in the early 1960’s during the widening works of the local state road. Caver were prevented from entering it for some years but they eventually gained access and quickly explored it to a depth of -582m. The leading clubs at the time were the newborn local one (more…)