UMTYLLUN / UMSNIONG (Krem)

(Mawsynram - IN)
25.227600,91.570900
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An east-facing, about 3 m wide and high cave entrance of unknown shape once was said to give access to a cave passage inside which selected marines in the pay of the Indian Navy abandoned caving after having measured a distance of 25 m more or less lengthwise and then invented a tale (Anonymous et al. 2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February) according to which they had created a conclusion [note 1] of about 40 m (note 2). ETYMOLOGY: As far as known, the caving marines, who were involved in attempting to survey this cave, discovered that this cave is possibly called -- but this remains unknowable -- either Krem Umsniong (note 3) Anonymous et al. (2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February); Anonymous (2010.03.29 Mss: Survey summary.xls) Krem Umtyllun (note 4) Anonymous et al. (2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February) and, last but not least, again possibly Krem Umsieniong (note 5) Anonymous 2010.02.03 -Krem Umsieniong_01.Text- survey data file. SITUATION 2010(Anonymous et al. 2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February): At an unidentified location (without recorded GPS position) somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Lawbah (note 6) and at a spot which lies at an unspecified distance (probably along a winding route but, perhaps, in a direct line) of two furlongs or just about 400 m from the blue hole [note 7] on the road to Nongtrai (note 8). SITUATION 2011: In an unidentified spatial relation near Lawbah, just about 400 m from the blue hole on the road to Nongtrai (Arbenz, T 2010.12.17 Mss Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010). The GPS position (±12 m N25°13'39.2”: E091°34'15.1” WGS84) recorded for Krem Umsieniong indicates a spot that lies a) from the village of Lawbah (near ±250 m 25°14'00”N: 91°33'55”E) about a kilometre south-east along the road to the two the upper and lower villages of Nongtrai (25°12'38”N: 91°36'37”E) and Nongtrai (25°12'52”N: 91°37'09”E), b) from Pung Mawtapiew (25°13'43.2”N: 91°33'46.8”E), te -Blue Hole- of the tourists, some 800 m in a direct line approximately ESE (793 m east and 124 m south), and c) from the unidentified Lawbah Sink (25°13'51”N: 91°34'14”E) about 365 m in a direct line almost due south (365 m south and 31 m east). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Walking upstream along a streambed eventually leads to an east-facing, about 3 m wide and high cave entrance that gives access to about 25 m of surveyed cave passage (on average 1.5 m large). This contains a pool of water and leads generally north to ill-defined upstream entrances amidst partly roofed limestone pillars where cave mapping was abandoned (after Arbenz, T 2011.12.17 Mss: Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010 and Arbenz, T 2012.01.01 personal correspondence after Kharpran Daly, B D 2010.02.03 notebook).(Anonymous et al. 2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February): At an unidentified location (without recorded GPS position) somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Lawbah (note 6) and at a spot which lies at an unspecified distance (probably along a winding route but, perhaps, in a direct line) of two furlongs or just about 400 m from the blue hole [note 7] on the road to Nongtrai (note 8). SITUATION 2011: In an unidentified spatial relation near Lawbah, just about 400 m from the blue hole on the road to Nongtrai (Arbenz, T 2010.12.17 Mss Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010). The GPS position (±12 m N25°13'39.2”: E091°34'15.1” WGS84) recorded for Krem Umsieniong indicates a spot that lies a) from the village of Lawbah (near ±250 m 25°14'00”N: 91°33'55”E) about a kilometre south-east along the road to the two the upper and lower villages of Nongtrai (25°12'38”N: 91°36'37”E) and Nongtrai (25°12'52”N: 91°37'09”E), b) from Pung Mawtapiew (25°13'43.2”N: 91°33'46.8”E), t(Anonymous et al. 2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February): At an unidentified location (without recorded GPS position) somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Lawbah (note 6) and at a spot which lies at an unspecified distance (probably along a winding route but, perhaps, in a direct line) of two furlongs or just about 400 m from the blue hole [note 7] on the road to Nongtrai (note 8). SITUATION 2011: In an unidentified spatial relation near Lawbah, just about 400 m from the blue hole on the road to Nongtrai (Arbenz, T 2010.12.17 Mss Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010). The GPS position (±12 m N25°13'39.2”: E091°34'15.1” WGS84) recorded for Krem Umsieniong indicates a spot that lies a) from the village of Lawbah (near ±250 m 25°14'00”N: 91°33'55”E) about a kilometre south-east along the road to the two the upper and lower villages of Nongtrai (25°12'38”N: 91°36'37”E) and Nongtrai (25°12'52”N: 91°37'09”E), b) from Pung Mawtapiew (25°13'43.2”N: 91°33'46.8”E), t(Anonymous et al. 2010.03.29 Diary (Current) 2010.doc: 3rd February): At an unidentified location (without recorded GPS position) somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Lawbah (note 6) and at a spot which lies at an unspecified distance (probably along a winding route but, perhaps, in a direct line) of two furlongs or just about 400 m from the blue hole [note 7] on the road to Nongtrai (note 8). SITUATION 2011: In an unidentified spatial relation near Lawbah, just about 400 m from the blue hole on the road to Nongtrai (Arbenz, T 2010.12.17 Mss Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010). The GPS position (±12 m N25°13'39.2”: E091°34'15.1” WGS84) recorded for Krem Umsieniong indicates a spot that lies a) from the village of Lawbah (near ±250 m 25°14'00”N: 91°33'55”E) about a kilometre south-east along the road to the two the upper and lower villages of Nongtrai (25°12'38”N: 91°36'37”E) and Nongtrai (25°12'52”N: 91°37'09”E), b) from Pung Mawtapiew (25°13'43.2”N: 91°33'46.8”E), te -Blue Hole- of the tourists, some 800 m in a direct line approximately ESE (793 m east and 124 m south), and c) from the unidentified Lawbah Sink (25°13'51”N: 91°34'14”E) about 365 m in a direct line almost due south (365 m south and 31 m east). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Walking upstream along a streambed eventually leads to an east-facing, about 3 m wide and high cave entrance that gives access to about 25 m of surveyed cave passage (on average 1.5 m large). This contains a pool of water and leads generally north to ill-defined upstream entrances amidst partly roofed limestone pillars where cave mapping was abandoned (after Arbenz, T 2011.12.17 Mss: Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010 and Arbenz, T 2012.01.01 personal correspondence after Kharpran Daly, B D 2010.02.03 notebook).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2010.02.03: An unidentified guide (perhaps Gharsing Mylliemngap from the village of Lawbah) guided Phrang Kupar “Teddy” Mawlong and the Indian Navy marines Amulya Prasad Parihar, Prakash C Bishnoi, Karma Choki Bhutia (Leading Store Assistant), Vikram Singh Kirola and Pankaj Rai (Seaman 1st Class) to the cave entrance of one Krem Umtyllun / (Umsniong?) (probably either a Krem Um Tyllong or a Krem U Seiñ Iong), which was 'surveyed' (sports caver standards) to a degree yielding about 40 m (sic! qua: 25 m) of so-called 'survey' (total sum of survey leg lengths) but no 'cave survey' (cave plan) whatsoever. Arbenz, T (2011.12.17 Mss Krem Umsieniong 03.2.2010) mentions the guide Direct Kharlyngdoh and reconstructed 3rd Feb 2010: Teddy, Amulya, Prakash, Karma, Vikram and Pankaj surveyed to a conclusion [or abandonment of the survey] of about 40 m but probably meant that they concluded surveying after 40 m. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.4LAWBAH SINK, Mawsynram (Sink near)
0.8MAWTAPIEW, Lawbah village (Pung)
0.9DIKUBIN (Krem)
2.7JYNNIAW CAVE 3c »Pothole«
2.8PAMSKEI (Krem)
3.6MAWPUN (Krem)
4.3JYNNIAW CAVE 2a
4.3JYNNIAW CAVE 1st
4.3JYNNIAW CAVE 3a