TETENG NOKKIM

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Two cave entrances are found inside a collapse doline (approximately 15 m in diameter and 10 m deep) into which the Kangchi Stream sinks (Rabina A. Marak, daughter of Rongdangkai / Rongdanggai Village Headman, and Priya Belina Marak, personal communication 2003.02.11 with Neil Sootinck). SITUATION: Somewhere in the vicinity Rongdangkai (Rongdanggai) village (above the right / western bank of Morasora River), which lies above the Morasora Bridge on the Maheshkhola- Khanjoy road. To reach the closed depression and cave entrances, walk for 10 minutes from the iron bridge across the Morasora into an unknown direction towards an unspecified place in an area with unidentified features and peculiarities. CAVE DESCRIPTION (after Bäumler 2004.04.14, note 1): The eastern entrance (facing west) gives access to a spacious passage (12 by 12 m) descending 20 m across rubble into a kind of chamber blocked with boulders, where, about 10 m up (partly accessible on an exposed ledge: bolting? required),a rift passage is suspected to arrive from the north-east. The western entrance (7 m wide, 3 m high) leads via a stooping section to a small chamber, which appears to be blocked with masses of speleothems but a narrow gap on the north side allows bypassing the secondary calcite deposits and a spacious passage continues into a Bat Chamber (Chiroptera). Descending across (between?) guano covered boulders, a lower cave level is gained and the passage forks into two. With the due western branch, the gallery descends once more to the top of an undescended pot, which, not pleasing the original explorers, continues into unknown depths. Passing by this pot (the -No-Pleaser- ?) one can climb up into an upper part of the cave where possible continuations were not discovered. With the south-western branch, one reaches a part of the cave beautifully blocked with speleothem masses.Two cave entrances are found inside a collapse doline (approximately 15 m in diameter and 10 m deep) into which the Kangchi Stream sinks (Rabina A. Marak, daughter of Rongdangkai / Rongdanggai Village Headman, and Priya Belina Marak, personal communication 2003.02.11 with Neil Sootinck). SITUATION: Somewhere in the vicinity Rongdangkai (Rongdanggai) village (above the right / western bank of Morasora River), which lies above the Morasora Bridge on the Maheshkhola- Khanjoy road. To reach the closed depression and cave entrances, walk for 10 minutes from the iron bridge across the Morasora into an unknown direction towards an unspecified place in an area with unidentified features and peculiarities. CAVE DESCRIPTION (after Bäumler 2004.04.14, note 1): The eastern entrance (facing west) gives access to a spacious passage (12 by 12 m) descending 20 m across rubble into a kind of chamber blocked with boulders, where, about 10 m up (partly accessible on an exposed ledge: bolting? required),Two cave entrances are found inside a collapse doline (approximately 15 m in diameter and 10 m deep) into which the Kangchi Stream sinks (Rabina A. Marak, daughter of Rongdangkai / Rongdanggai Village Headman, and Priya Belina Marak, personal communication 2003.02.11 with Neil Sootinck). SITUATION: Somewhere in the vicinity Rongdangkai (Rongdanggai) village (above the right / western bank of Morasora River), which lies above the Morasora Bridge on the Maheshkhola- Khanjoy road. To reach the closed depression and cave entrances, walk for 10 minutes from the iron bridge across the Morasora into an unknown direction towards an unspecified place in an area with unidentified features and peculiarities. CAVE DESCRIPTION (after Bäumler 2004.04.14, note 1): The eastern entrance (facing west) gives access to a spacious passage (12 by 12 m) descending 20 m across rubble into a kind of chamber blocked with boulders, where, about 10 m up (partly accessible on an exposed ledge: bolting? required),a rift passage is suspected to arrive from the north-east. The western entrance (7 m wide, 3 m high) leads via a stooping section to a small chamber, which appears to be blocked with masses of speleothems but a narrow gap on the north side allows bypassing the secondary calcite deposits and a spacious passage continues into a Bat Chamber (Chiroptera). Descending across (between?) guano covered boulders, a lower cave level is gained and the passage forks into two. With the due western branch, the gallery descends once more to the top of an undescended pot, which, not pleasing the original explorers, continues into unknown depths. Passing by this pot (the -No-Pleaser- ?) one can climb up into an upper part of the cave where possible continuations were not discovered. With the south-western branch, one reaches a part of the cave beautifully blocked with speleothem masses.