Italy - Last news from Nottole group in Arera
During the last months of 2007 the Bergamo’s group has restarted an exploration exit to the Crevazza Fruttari (one of the most important abysses in the Arera Peak in the italian Pre-Alps) with three teams. The photographic team is devoted to the Pit of Speck, up to -114 m. The team “deep” has checked a different way to descent along the Pit Archimede, going back to the notorious “Caviale” fund (-260 around) without finding windows noteworthy. The team “transversal”, has finally tried a control to the high parts of the “Podzilla” pit (153m). After some meters of an aerial sub-horizontal progression and one climbing again (wet) of around 30 meters, the explorers are found before two routes. Chosen the airiest street and gone through three narrow un-banal passages, they are stopped to the beginning of a vertical climbing for ended ropes. Now the new ramification is not topographed and it is difficult to say what can offer. Unfortunately it would seem to theoretically aim in opposite direction to the connectable abysses (Increduli first). Realize that the “Podzilla” is around 200 meters in total deep, considering it seems to continue well upward. Also the friends cavers of Brescia (ASB group) participated to the expedition.
Participants: C. Brescianini, M. Gerosa, G. Pannuzzo, M. Sassi, GP Foti, G. Frassine, R. Gaiti.
News from Giorgio Pannuzzo GSB Le Nottole
Version by Annalisa Basili