Veryovkina Cave Gagra Georgia the deepest caves in the world
Veryovkina Cave Gagra Georgia the deepest caves in the world
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Veryovkina Cave the deepest known caves in the world, including Krubera Cave, once the deepest and now second to Veryovkina Cave, which, at 1.3 miles (2,212 meters) down, holds the record.
When it was first documented in 1968, only 377 feet of it were charted, but since then, with additional expeditions, it has grown deeper and deeper. The entrance to this vertical cave system lies between two mountains—Fortress and Umbrella—in the Arabika Massif of the Western Caucasus. This remote place is tough to access, and it took dozens of speleological expeditions and 50 years for it to finally claim the record, in 2018, when members of Moscow-based speleological clubs reached its depths.
Veryovkina Cave Map A map of Veryovkina Cave on WonderMondo shows how the cave wasn’t explored all at once but in stages. The first expedition in 1968 reached the Krasnoyarsk Branch, about 115 meters down.
In September 2018, a group of cavers entered the cave with hopes of documenting new crevices and perhaps discovering new species of animal – but disaster struck just three days into their expedition
Two of the explorers issued a warning call to the rest of their crew who were behind them, alerting them to the fact they were approaching the risk of gushing water.
The cave’s entrance has a cross section of 3 metres by 4 metres and an entrance shaft depth of 32 metres.
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Veryovkina Cave (Abkhazia)
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Lamprechtsofen (Austria)
Gouffre Mirolda (France)
Gouffre Jean-Bernard (France)
Sistema del Cerro del Cuevón (Spain)
Hirlatzhöhle (Austria) Sistema Huautla (Mexico)
How to get into Veryovkina Cave
Abkhazia is the extreme southwestern historical province of Georgia. The area of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia is currently occupied by Russia. Before you can head out to Abkhazia from Georgia, you have to get an entry permit from the Abkhazian government. One can easily take a train to a border city named Zugdidi from Tbilisi station. The Tbilisi International Airport is located 17 kilometers from Georgia. Georgia is reachable by all major domestic and international airports.