Unfortunately, same type tragedy happened with Hungarian speleologists,
like with their Ukrainian fellows, in course of descending from the
mountain, already in the forest zone, at Jan-20.
After successful exploration work, on a route from the cave entrance to the
village which normally takes 1 hour, three members of the expedition walked
already 5 hours because of very bad snow conditions but reached just some
half of the distance.
Then they were crashed by an avalanch which was not fatal yet: all of the
survived but could not move forward due to extremely dangerous situation.
Therefore asked for help via Hungarian Cave Rescue Service, giving their
GPS coordinates. Unfortunately, no air rescue was possible due to bad
weather. Later mobil connection bacame impossible with them.
Then a second avalanch crushed them wich became already lethal. One
survivor fighted three hours under snow for his life, but he could not find
the others until late night. They were found dead by Italian rescue team,
on the next day when the survivor was found as well.
Another three members, finishing their underground work later, are already
in safety, at home.
Italian Rescue Service takes special care for those four who are
countinuing exploration in the cave (without the knowledge of the accident) and they arrived back safely today."


Dr. Miklós Nyerges

The secretary of the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service



Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of Organic Chemical Technology
Technical University of Budapest
H-1521 Budapest P.O.B. 91, Hungary

Web: http://www.barlang.hu/pages/nyerges.htm
Phone: (+361)-463-22-13
Mobile: (+36)-20-493-8157
Fax:(+361)-463-36-48
Pager: (+36)-50-428-378
email: mnyerges@mail.bme.hu

Dal 22 marzo il G.S.A.V. inizierà il suo 28° corso di avviamento alla speleologia, vi invito a scaricarvi il pieghevole dal sito www.gsav.org  di modo che possiate leggervi il programma delle uscite in grotta.

Le grotte interessate (in ordine cronologico) sono:

Corchia (Canyon)
Buca del Baccile
Buca dei Tunnel
Abisso Farolfi

Vi evito la pappardella delle solite comunicazioni per evitare sovraffollamenti in quel periodo, tanto come funziona lo sapete già (anche se spesso ci ritroviamo come sempre a fare merenda in qualche grotta nonostante i soliti avvisi).

Paolo Dori
Segreteria G.S.A.V.