MULALE (Krem)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified, apparently vertical cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation, unidentified characteristics) is said to give access to a pothole cave associated with the Khasi people's Titans about whom Mark W. Brown learned nothing. ETYMOLOGY: The origin and history (or herstory) of the cave name -Krem Mulale- has not been discovered by expedition cavers but the Synteng Khasi (Pnar) -u mu- is the same as the standard Khasi -u maw- and signifies a stone whilst -ki Lale- (Holding Bamon, Wesley Rupon and Churchill Sukhlain 2001.02.08) is the name of legendary, ancient people of great strength and large build. SITUATION: At an unspecified location on the eastern side of the Shnongrim Ridge and in an inexplicable setting which Mark W. Brown understood to lie somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Tongseng (N25°19'28-: E92°30'05” WGS84). The cave entrances elevation of 1062.46 m asl (original GPS reading: 1086 m) results from the cave srvey based on the assumed altitude of 1000.00 m asl for the Krem –>Umthluh 2 (resp. 993 m for Krem Umthluh 1). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Apart from unidentified characteristics and unidentified peculiarities, amazingly little or, to be straightforward, nothing relevant whatsoever (note 1) has been observed except 10 x 15 diameter shaft rock bridge 50 m (?) deep. Big (20 m high) chamber / passage leads off (Brown, Mark W 2001.02.08).rvey based on the assumed altitude of 1000.00 m asl for the Krem –>Umthluh 2 (resp. 993 m for Krem Umthluh 1). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Apart from unidentified characteristics and unidentified peculiarities, amazingly little or, to be straightforward, nothing relevant whatsoever (note 1) has been observed except 10 x 15 diameter shaft rock bridge 50 m (?) deep. Big (20 m high) chamber / passage leads off (Brown, Mark W 2001.02.08).