Contact cavities and the future of glaciers… a Polaroid from October 2022

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Created: Monday, 05 December 2022 08:05

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The October 2022 expedition concluded the monitoring of some contact caves on the Aletsch and Gorner glaciers, both located in the Swiss canton of Valais. The collection of data and topographic surveys is linked to a study organized and carried out by the "Inside the Glaciers" team, already launched last year through the project called "Northen Side of the Alps 2021". The La Venta Association always remains at the forefront in active support of such research.

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La Venta present and awarded at the International Speleology Congress

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Created: Wednesday, 03 August 2022 07:47

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Dissemination has always been one of the main objectives of the La Venta association. After Sydney in 2017, once again this year we participated in the International Speleology Congress which took place in France, in the splendid setting of Bourget du Lac, between the karst massifs of Chartreuse and Vanoise.

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Between volcanoes and glaciers

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Created: Wednesday, 01 June 2022 06:55

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The expedition to Iceland has just ended and the whole group has returned to Italy.

In the last days, activities have continued first on the Fagradalsfjall volcano and then on the Virkisjökull glacier.

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The Hraun Project: in search of new volcanic caves in the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

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Created: Friday, 13 May 2022 07:19

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As speleologists we are used to exploring ancient caves that were formed thousands or even millions of years ago as a result of long geological, physical and chemical processes.

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Deep in the Colombian Amazon

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Created: Monday, 14 March 2022 13:31

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The first operational phase of the "Colombian Amazon" project, which aims to explore and study a vast area of quartz rock outcrops immersed in a primary tropical forest in the south of the Colombian state, mostly still unknown to man and science.

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Words from the dark. Explorations and stories in distant worlds. - What do speleologists and astronauts have in common?

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Created: Thursday, 27 January 2022 08:18

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A chat with Loredana Bessone of the European Space Agency about the encounter between two worlds, caves and space, speleologists and astronauts.

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