UMSHOR 2 (Krem)

(Khliehriat - IN)
25.177200,92.375300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 03/07/2016

The first of two cave entrances (the other being Krem Umshor 3), which both give access to relatively low bedding plane cave passages sandwiched between alternating sand- and limestone bands at a horizon where Lakadong Limestone transgresses into underlying Therria Sandstone. Both caves are believed to be hydrologically linked and morphologically associated with Krem –>Umshor. ETYMOLOGY: No locally known cave names have been identified, if it exists, for the system of these two caves, which simply were dubbed Krem Umshor 2 and Krem Umshor 3 due to their proximity to Krem Umshor proper. SITUATION: The cave entrance to Krem Umshor 2 lies in an unidentified spatial relation »immediately behind« what had been in February 1999 the concrete washing place in the back of the Lumshnong village playing field. CAVE DESCRIPTION: A 1.5 m climb down into a relatively »small passage« (estimated 2 m wide, 0.4 m high, and 6 m long) leads on a bearing of 290° to a continuation blocked by collapse boulders.

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1999.02.18, trip 1: Alfred Lanong guided Brian D. Kharpran Daly to the cave entrance of Krem –>Umshor, Antony 'Tony' Boycott, assisted by Andrew "Andy" Peter Tyler, found the entrance to this cave on his own. 1999.02.23, trip 2: Simon J. Brooks and a helper or two re-visited, entered and explored once more, sketched a rough grade 3b survey, and exited. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 03/07/2016

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0UMSHOR 3 (Krem)
0.0AA CAVE, Lumshnong (Lindenmayr) 08
0.0UMSHOR (Krem)
0.1LIAT HATI, Lumshnong (Krem)
0.1COALMINE CAVE, Lumshnong (aa -)
0.1AA CAVE, Lumshnong (Scherzer), 5th
0.1AA CAVE, Lumshnong (Scherzer), 6th
0.1AA CAVE, Lumshnong (Lindenmayr) 09
0.1DIENIUNG, Lumshnong, 1st (Krem)