CHABARBU WATERFALL CAVE
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Description
A rift cave entrance (about 0.6 m wide, 2 m to 3 m high, at a barometric height of about 4120 m asl) opens just above the top of a scree slope some 200 m east of the –>Chabarbu Rock Shelter. A gully fed by a waterfall charged with ice-cold melt water plunges down the rock face and vividly splashes the entrance. Inside, the cave becomes larger (note 1), features a sort of level floor covered with angled rocks, and appears to have developed somewhat parallel to the east-west running cliff face.
NOTE 1: SCHERZER (1995a): The only hint to the actual dimensions of the cave I got from the Chabarbu teahouse manager. She told her husband once strolled around inside the cave. A visit to the cave in late summer or early autumn, when the ice and melt water flow is low, seems worth the effort.
Histoire
EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1994.05.07: Uwe Scherzer and H. D. Gebauer failed to gain entrance: A freezing trickle of meltwater was vividly splashing the entrance. Very soon the waterfall spoiled the fun of hacking steps into the ice covered climb and finally limited the exploration to ‘visual remote sensing’.