Research on No Man's Land' 2010

Дата на публикуване: Dec 21, 2012 3:32:43 PM

BULGARIAN SPELEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION IN KYRGYZSTAN’2010

In the period 10 August - 1 September, 2010, 9 speleologists from 6 Bulgarian caving clubs (“Caving“,“Vertilend”, “Helictit”,“Sofia”,"Academic", Sofia and “Aida”, Haskovo and "Mrak", Etropole”) - members  of Bulgarian Federation of Speleology, together with 5 Kyrgyz cavers carried out joint speleological expedition in the area of Ridge Kokshaaltoo - Mountain Tien Shan in South Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgizia). Under the leadership of Kamen Bonev, for the first time in the history of Speleology in Bulgaria, Bulgarian cavers searched and explored new caves as high altitude. The expedition team consists of specialists in various fields of scientific knowledge - geology, biology, geodesy, geographic information systems and others. This allowed all sites to be mapped and to prepare a complete documentation on them. An important part of the program was devoted to geological studies and surveying as geomorphological assessment of potential of the karst area. Biospeleogical and zoological studies was made also.

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