LEITLA PAWP

(Hnahthial - IN)
22.887100,92.987700
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A daylight-lit, circular pothole (3 m in diameter) under a canopy of orchids (Neil Sootinck) offers 28 m of more or less vertical cave passage (needs tackle), which eventually leads to a lower cave entrance (3 m in diameter) some 25 vertical metres further down. ETYMOLOGY: The Mizo -Leitla Pawp- translates into Leitla Collapse Sinkhole. SITUATION: In the west of Lungleng village, close to a steep gully (almost dry in April) and about 4 or 5 m from the edge of a cliff exposing thick bedded but multiple fractured arenaceous mudstone.

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2001.04.26: Vanlalruata, Tlau Laltanpuia and David Lalhimpuia descended in the late afternoon and measured the length. Alfred Vanchhawng took photographs and H. D. Gebauer a GPS reading. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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