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6. VERTICAVITE (VERTICAVE) France 9:30 min Philippe Chrochet Some stories can't be written from left to right. The one of water has to be written vertically for it is subject to the law of gravity that makes it sink into the ground. Cavers follow that same way to the depths. As they follow water, or look for it, they use the same path that it carved out while going down. The authors wish to share an aesthetic aspect of speleology, using pictures of cave exploration in France and abroad. 7. HONEY CREEK CAVE EXTRAVAGANZA USA, Texas 39:56 min Joe Furman and Jean Krejca Honey Creek Cave is the longest surveyed cave in Texas. In January of 2013 two cave divers with a support crew of nearly 70 cave adventurers pushed into uncharted regions of the cave and surveyed new passages only accessible to cave divers. This video documents this difficult and dangerous undertaking ten stories beneath the earth and three and a half miles from the nearest exit. The final push is recorded as it happened in glorious HD video. 8. THE LAST ADVENTURE Czech Republic 29:15 min Vratislav Ouhrabka Since 1986 a group of Czech, and later also Polish speleologists, have been exploring and documenting the glacier karst of southern Svalbard in the area of Hornsund and Belsund fjords. The fourteenth expedition to the inside of the glacier took place in 2010. The documentary film “The Last Adventure” depicts not only the expedition and its discoveries in the field of glaciospeleology, but also the discovery of the northernmost documented limestone cave in the world. 9. THE REALM OF SCARISOARA Romania 24:43 min Ciubotarescu Christian The film presents the touristic and scientific value of Scarisoara Ice Cave, Garda de Sus, County Alba, Romania, the history of researches that estimated it to be the largest (120,000 – 130,000 cubic meters), and oldest (over 10,000 years) underground ice block in the world. It presents Iosif Viehmann, at 87 years, the world’s oldest active caver. It presents the successful reconstruction of a nursery bat roost in Poarta lui Ionele cave, made by local caving club Sfinx and the legal conflict with the Director of Apuseni Natural Park that was generated in an environment of excessive bureaucracy. 10. “NEW CAVE FROM 1882” Croatia 16:30 min Boris Watz The film „New Cave from 1882“is dedicated to the first known map surveyor in Croatia. Croatian cavers visited the cave „Mala pecina“after 130 years and made new explorations and surveying and also found new archeological artifacts.
11. “ICS 2009 KERVILLE, TEXAS” Croatia 22:30 min Boris Watz The film „ICS 2009 Kerrville,Texas“ is a documentary about the last congress. 12. A NEW DIMENSION United Kingdom 3:17 min Rob Eavis Want a new perspective on what is possible in a caving video This is a short video made up of over 1000 still photos. What’s more is that to achieve some of the mind-boggling effects many of the images took over 5 minutes each! (no photoshop editing was made to any of the images). 13. EL SÓTANO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS Mexico 10:58 min Mónica G. Ponce González One of the 13 wonders of Mexico captures the attention of the world. The deep abyss is a cave that reaches a depth of 515 meters below the karst plain. Members of Asociacion Coahuilense de Espeleologia, A.C. return to explore the Sotano of Golondrinas with new club members to undertake a personal challenge. At the end of the video, they send best wishes to Monica Ponce, to have a better health. Monica was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. Now she is a survivor of breast cancer. It is important to us, because she edited this video when she undergone the chemotherapy, and now we want to share with you, because we want to say THANK YOU CAVERS OF THE WORLD for helping our friend in her treatments. ACEAC Team. 14. LAS CUEVAS DE COAHUILA Mexico 10:58 min Mónica G. Ponce González The Asociacion Coahuilense de Espeleologia, A.C. present the story about two caves in Saltillo. How we discovered it and what we found in it. The Marimba Cave is a wonderful cave into a Sierra Zapaliname, and Coyote cave or Letrina cave is a hypogenic cave, in Bunuelos, Coahuila and made a comparison with the book of Jules Verne. Is a small history about both caves discovery. The ACEAC team working in the conservation project for both caves. Language Spanish. Thanks. ACEAC team 15. CONQUEST OF DOME OF SILENCE Czech Republic 13:26 min Štěpán Mátl This document describes activities of the speleological club “Býčí Skála” in years 2010-2011. The main goal of this endeavor was to make access via a dry passage between the Barová Cave and Býčí skála-Rudické Propadání Cave System which has not been possible up to this point. The main goal was the access to the Dome of Silence. 16. FLASH BACK France 9:30 min Philippe Chrochet When you are an electronic flashgun, you can't imagine a better destiny than working for a cave photographer, and spending your life lighting complete darkness. But it turns out that this marvelous life is not as easy as it seems. From enchantment to disappointment here are the
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