WAH THYLLIANG SWALLET

(Saipung - IN)
25.346300,92.522300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A cave entrance gives access to a pothole with shafts and pitches (P17 and P20 or P17 and P26) which once were the only active swallet [note 1] of any significance in this area sinks at the margin into a 17 m deep pot followed by a 26 m drop to a debris and cobbles chokes bedding plane; still draughting but very tight.The other sinks in the locality, Krem Khurisha [deep pot in gryke], and Krem Soh Lyluait [20 m pitch] appear to focus into the same doline 68 m to S/E through abandoned deeply cut open rifts, typically 10 to 15 m deep and often only 1/2 m wide, to abandoned and choked sinks (Sheen 2004.11.06 Mss: Wah Thylliang Swallet). SITUATION: In an unspecified spatial relation below the village of Shnongrim and in a very difficult pinnacle karst terrain (Sheen 2004.11.06) on the eastern flank of the Shnongrim Ridge. APPROACH 1 (Sheen 2003.02.22 Mss: Krem Wah Thylliang): Follow trail down from Shnongrim village. Through pine groves to a location where a good sized streambed sinks int a c15 m deep pot with a further c20 m following on. Expect more pitches! APPROACH 2 (Sheen 2004.11.06 Mss: Wah Thylliang Swallet): Starting at Shnongrim (N25°20'48”: E 092°31'14.2”, ±9 m) walk down the Shaktiman track approx. 400 m to N25°20'47.6”: E092°31'20.7”. Turn East for 150 m through pine woods on a pathway to arrive at a grove and the active Swallet Krem Wah Thylliang on the left [and near] N25°20'46,5”: E092°32'20.3”. CAVE FICTION: Sheen (2003.02.22 Mss: Krem Wah Thylliang): May provide access to the Synrang Labbit - Synrang Ngap system! Sheen (2008.11.07 Mss: Wah Thylliang Swallet.doc) reconfirmes to suspect that the Wah Thylliang Swallet may be worth revisiting as a possible way into Ngap and possibly did not intend to point out possible inroads into an unspecified honey bee but into Krem –>Synrang Ngap, the cave of the apiary. CAVE LIFE: HARRIES et al. (2008 fig 23 i) gives a photograph showing Black Opiliones at cave entrance (Krem Wah Tylliang 2004) forming ggregations. a c15 m deep pot with a further c20 m following on. Expect more pitches! APPROACH 2 (Sheen 2004.11.06 Mss: Wah Thylliang Swallet): Starting at Shnongrim (N25°20'48”: E 092°31'14.2”, ±9 m) walk down the Shaktiman track approx. 400 m to N25°20'47.6”: E092°31'20.7”. Turn East for 150 m through pine woods on a pathway to arrive at a grove and the active Swallet Krem Wah Thylliang on the left [and near] N25°20'46,5”: E092°32'20.3”. CAVE FICTION: Sheen (2003.02.22 Mss: Krem Wah Thylliang): May provide access to the Synrang Labbit - Synrang Ngap system! Sheen (2008.11.07 Mss: Wah Thylliang Swallet.doc) reconfirmes to suspect that the Wah Thylliang Swallet may be worth revisiting as a possible way into Ngap and possibly did not intend to point out possible inroads into an unspecified honey bee but into Krem –>Synrang Ngap, the cave of the apiary. CAVE LIFE: HARRIES et al. (2008 fig 23 i) gives a photograph showing Black Opiliones at cave entrance (Krem Wah Tylliang 2004) forming ggregations.

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018
  • Harries, Daniel B et al. 2008.

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2003.02.22: Raplang Shangpliang guided Robin F. Sheen (2003.02.22 Mss: Krem Wah Thylliang) to Krem Wah Thylliang. 27.02.2004: Robin F. Sheen, Brian Cowper (Cotter), Shelley A. Diengdoh and Jonathan Davies fully visited and entered to 'survey' 34 m (Brooks 2004.04.16 revised 2004.05.11) or 44 m to a degree yielding meterage (Sheen 2004.11.06 Mss). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0SOH LYLUAIT (Krem)
0.1KHURISHA 2 (Krem)
0.1KHURISHA 1 (Krem)
0.1KHURISHA 3 (Krem)
0.1WAH THYLLIANG DOLINE
0.1KHURISHA (Krem)
0.1KHURISHA 4 (Krem)
0.2UM SUBA (Krem)
0.4SKAP 1 (Krem)