Scorpion Cave

(Khliehriat - IN)
25.181900,92.380600
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/04/2016

A relatively »small« (sic!) and absolutely unspecified cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation, unidentified characteristics), was said to lead to an estimated 60 m of nicely speleothem decorated cave passage corkscrewing down through proper sandstone beds and a choke before getting into the usual limestone. The expedition cavers Boycott, Jarratt, Kharpran Daly and Sandford achieved on to declare having "explored" this cave the spot which they visited but neither surveyed or mapped nor described (note 1). ETYMOLOGY: No autochthonous, indigenous or locally known name has been identified for what expedition cavers christened »Scorpion Cave« and disguised as a Pseudokhasi Krem Nianglartham (note 2). SITUATION: In a doline with unidentified dimensions and shape, which was found somewhere at an unspecified distance in an unidentified direction »next« to the –>Rift Pot entrance (25°09'56”N: 92°22'52”E) of Krem –>Umlawan. CAVE LIFE: Jarratt (1997.02.22 Mss: Cave Log) had cast a glance, perhaps full of malice or spite, on an estimated five inches (12.7 cm or so) long and »venomous looking« scorpion (conf. Araneae: Scorpionidae) lurking on the wall of a side passage.

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/04/2016

NOTE 1: »Discretion being the better part of valour, we rapidly buggered off out« (Jarratt 1997.02.22 Mss: Cave Log)NOTE 2: ka 'ñianglarthám (Khasi; noun), a contraction of "ka khñiang" [small cold-blooded creature] + "la" + "rthám" [fast clinging], a scorpion (SINGH, N 1906: 141; SINGH, N 1920: 457; BLAH, E 2007: 264), a terrestrial arachnid with lobsterlike pincers and a poisonous sting at the end of its jointed tail, which it can hold curved over the back. NOTE 3: »28-2-97 Estelle, Tony, J-Rat, Brian and Spindro … go to Krem Nianglartham« (Brooks, S J in: BROOKS, S J et al 1998: 30).

Documents

Bibliography 28/04/2016

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1997.02.28: Spindro Dkhar from Lunshnong guided Brian D. Kharpran Daly, Estelle Sandford, Antony 'Tony' Boycott, and Anthony 'Tony' R Jarratt visited the cave entrance and "explored" (entered) the cave, exited and excused themselves (note 3). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/04/2016

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.1LABIT, Lumshnong (Lanong 1999) (Krem)
0.1LABIT, Lumshnong (Jarratt 1999) (Krem)
0.3DIENGJRI, Lumshnong, 3 (Krem)
0.3WAH IAJOH (Krem)
0.3THANGSHRIEH (Krem)
0.3KHLEIH UM LARNG CAVE, 1st
0.3UMMYRSIANG (Krem)
0.3KHLEIH UM LARNG CAVE, 2nd
0.3WAH LARENG (Jarratt 1997) (Umpohliew)