A mountain rescuer from Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (Lake District, UK) was severly injured yesterday (Sunday) after falling 150 meters down the side of Red Screes while rescuing 2 campers, one with chest pains. The mountain rescuer has spinal injuries…
Karst terrains cover about 20% of the planet’s land surface. They are best known for caves and spectacularly unusual landscapes. Unfortunately, they are poorly recognized for their great and many values to humanity. They provide: water to about 10% of…
A Guide to Planning Virtual Events Dr. George VeniInternational Union of Speleology President For the first time in history, the global speleological community is united in 2021 in a one grand project, the International Year of Caves and Karst (IYCK).…
The General Assembly 2020/21 is going to take place as Online Conference on 28th January 2021, 18:00 UTC (19:00 MEZ, 20:00 EET).This meeting is organized by the ECRA Board. Circular for the Online ECRA General Assembly Introduction Last year was…
Dear Colleagues! ECRA board decide to postponed ECRA meeting in Cantabria planed for 13th-15th November in Ramales de la Vitcoria in organization by ESOCAN on a behalf of ECRA. Last night ECRA board had meeting together with Spanish colleagues and…
For the Croatian speleologists the summer is the most active exploration period. In July and August are most of the expeditions and many keen cavers participate in these. Moreover, now is the time for complex and often deep and far,…
Our president asked to announce the ECRA-Meeting 2020. Unluckily Poland cannot organize the meeting as announced in Istria last year. Therefore the Cantabrian member ESOCAN invited to come to Spain. Thank you.
14-17 November 2019, Preliminary program 13-14 November 2019 The 13th European Cave Rescue Meeting took place in Baredine Cave, Istria, Croatia from 14th to 17th November 2019 and was organized by Croatian Mountain Rescue Service – Cave Rescue Commission on…
On 27th November we lost the outstanding Bulgarian speleologist Trifon Daaliev – “Trankata” (The Thorny), long term secretary of the Bulgarian Federation of Speleology and chief of the Cave Rescue – Bulgaria (formerly Emergency rescue squad).
The 13th European Cave Rescue Meeting is going to take place in Baredine Cave, Istria, Croatia from 14th to 17th November 2019. Organized by Croatian Mountain Rescue Service – Cave Rescue Commission on behalf of the European Cave Rescue Association.