YEDI (Cooke 2013) (Krem)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A relatively constricted [cave] entrance of unknown size faces an unidentified direction and gives access to a cave passage in which gentlemen with a taste for long ones encountered the sight of a total of some 60 m endowed with a crawl under a stal. curtain (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 11th February, Monday). SITUATION: The entrance to this cave was found in the course of an expedition from the cave entrance to that Krem Yedi, for which the coordinates of N25o24’56.0” E92o36’15.5” read from the map were good enough. by negotiating a march up a scramble and across the depression to the base of a rock outcrop 30 m to the NW of [an unspecified] the sump (17 m vertical separation) (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 11th February, Monday). CAVE DESCRIPTION: A constricted entrance leads to a hands and knees crawl in a 3 m wide passage with compacted mud floor. A crawl under a stal. curtain leads to walking passage.After a total of some 60 m the passage shrinks to a strongly drafting 1 m by 1 m hole (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 11th February, Monday). Adi, Urs, Cookie … set off for the upper entrance … [in hope] it would provide a bypass to the sump in the first few metres of the lower entrance. The caving was pleasant in this well decorated cave. After 100 m the floor steeply sloped up to a second entrance above, no sump bypass. A relatively small hole, partly blocked by tree roots [15th February 2013], was located in the final camber and allowed to wriggle down in to a mud coated chamber (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 15th February, Friday). CAVE POTENTIAL: Fully unidentified, so-called the locals (no names mentioned) are said to report that this cave [Krem Yedi] is the resurgence for Krem Khung (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 15th February, Friday). PROSPECTS: Digging through he mud would be required for further progress (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 15th February, Friday). CAVE CLIMATE: Selected aspects of an airflow, which was noticed in the interior of the cave on 15th February 2013 at an unspecified time, was interpreted as the draft continues down a small hole that bat flew out of and a low bedding (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 15th February, Friday). CAVE LIFE: On Friday, 15th February 2013, Krem Yedi was not only the home of bat (Chiroptera) but, apparently, also of a volatile species of a low bedding which both flew out of a hole in a mud coated chamber (anonymous Arbenz, T 2013.08.07 Mss: Meghalaya Expedition 2013 Diary: 15th February, Friday).