PACHOR CAVE 3

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: 7th February). 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. This cave was then surveyed, yielding 54.18 m … Some photographs were also taken. The team then walked a little further up the Gorge where they located Krem Pachor 2 (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 9th February). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018