PACHOR CAVE 2

(Saipung - IN)
25.387500,92.613900
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Apparently two cave entrances give access to a true tunnel cave (Brooks, S J & Doyle, R 2013.02.09 -Krem Pachor 2_01.Text- survey data file), which was understood to represent the second of three nice caves that were skirting the canyon left and right like long oxbows (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary). ETYMOLOGY: See –>Pachor Cave 1. SITUATION: Unknown. At an unidentified location and in an unspecified spatial relation to the cave entrances of –>Pachor Cave 1 (further up in the same gorge) and –>Pachor Cave 3 (further down in the same gorge). APPROACH: See –>Pachor Cave 1. CAVE DESCRIPTION: Both of the two unspecified cave entrances give access to an accessible part of a cave which is not only yielding but also 73.26 m survey length interpreted as passage (Brooks, Simon J in: anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 9th February).

Documents

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2013.02.07, trip1: James 'Jimmy' Manar from the village of Khahnar stepped in to guide Brian D. Kharpran Daly, Thomas Arbenz, Ralph Doyle, Angela and Peter Glanvill along a relatively steep Shaktiman track down the hill flank towards the valley bottom. After a good 30 minutes’ walk they reached a nice river, about four metres wide. This they followed upstream and got into a quite overgrown canyon. The banks got steeper and the team was forced to walk in the streambed. Soon the pools got too deep for Peter and Angela’s walking boots, so they turned back to look at a cave we had passed on the way down.The others continued up the canyon looking for Krem Khla. Jimmy, the guide, had only a rough idea where the cave might be, because he was a stand-in for the original guide. On the way along the cavers looked therefore thoroughly at every promising looking opening. Ralph was acting as ferret, never missing anything and so they found three nice caves that were skirtig the canyon left and right like long oxbows: Krem Bachor 1, 2 and 3. But Krem Khla, the Tiger Cave was not in sight … while Brian and Thomas surveyed Krem Bachor 3, clocking up 82 m of nice decorated cave passage (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary). 2013.02.09, Saturday, trip 2: Simon J. Brooks, Bushan Poshe and Ralph Doyle walked down to Krem Lyer … They then walked back up the valley and into the Gorge to locate Krem Pachor 3. … The team then walked a little further up the Gorge where they located Krem Pachor 2, which yielded 73.26 m of passage. Some photographs were taken and the team then walked up the final section of the Gorge, up to the road and back to camp (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 9th February). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0PACHOR CAVE 1
0.0PACHOR CAVE 3
0.0Baby Tiger Cave
0.3KHLA, Moo Knor (Krem)
0.3RAPBLANG (Krem)
0.3SLAJAT (Krem)
0.3PHYLLAW MASI (Krem)
0.3MYNTLANG (Krem)
0.3MYNTLANG 2 (Thlu)