PIERK / Caving Magazine

Summaries of Pierk number 4, December 1999

by: Marcel Dikstra

• p4 De Groei van Stalactieten van Binnenuit en Langs de Buitenkant. A scientific contribution towards an understanding of how stalactites grow. This article appeared previously in UBSS Proceedings 1998 21 (2).
  
• p10 Speleologen gered uit Vitarelles. A report by a Dutch caver who helped out on the rescue of the 7 French cavers in the Riviere souterraine des Vitarelles in France.
  
• p14 De Luigi Loop. A knot which can be used to connect two ropes in mid-pitch position.
  
• p16 Pozo Ibarra. The Flemish cavingclub SC Avalon discovered this new cave (-347m) in the Spanish Pyrenees, in the PSM region. The cave connects to the Pozo Estella and provides a saver entrance to this system.
  
• p18 To be or not to be WET. A club trip to the Yorkshire Dales. (Little Hull Pot, Bar Pot).
  
• p24 Nieuw basiscursusboek. The Dutch cave training committee presents the new caving course book.
  
• p26 Techniek, Tibloc. Description of a new piece of caving gear, the Petzl Tibloc.
  
• p27 Dikkertje Dap zat op de Trap.... A smallscale Dutch caving trip. By chance a new cave was discovered, the E.T.-Höhle and also some passage in the Röth-Eishöhle in Austria's Tennengebirge.
  
• p36 Laos Live Report. Three Dutch Cavers went on an expedition recce to Laos. They report on their findings.
  
• p42 Overpeinzing. Thoughts on the risks and the law as involved in caving.
  
• p43 On the Bight. On the use of the bowline-on-the-bight, a very useful type of knot.
  
• p44 A Far Country Fable. The poem of an epic caving trip by a British caver whith some reputation.
  
• p46 Ingezonden brief. Letters to the editor. One letter is on cave ethics, esp. on digging and blasting, the other on conservation measures taken in L'Aven de Noël in France.

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