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Spelunkers are men who like to explore holes in the ground. They say in the Pyrenees, which are as full of holes as Gruyère cheese, that once you become a spelunker (short for speleologist) the passion never leaves you. Such a man was 33-year-old Marcel Loubens. Since boyhood he had been crawling in & out of caves in his native Ariège in southern France. Then he ran an office-equipment firm in Paris, but the passion was still with him. Last year he was a member of an expedition which...
...closed vault-the water level flush with the top of the vault's entrance. "With proper equipment," said Cosyns, "we may be able to go down . . . perhaps even one thousand meters." And the thought of exploring one kilometer below the earth was something to make any speleologist's eyes bug with anticipation...
...speleological depth record passed last week from Italy to France. Speleologist (cave explorer) Pierre Chevalier, a chemical engineer above ground, led an expedition into a hole in the limestone body of the Dent de Crolles, a 6,765-ft. mountain in the western Alps. Eleven hours later the party emerged from the other side of the mountain and announced that they had worked their way 658 meters (2,158 ft.) below their starting point. The previous record, near Verona, Italy: 637 meters...
Norbert Casteret is the world's most versatile speleologist-a specialist in the science of caves. He has been fascinated by caverns, abysses and underground rivers since, in his youth, he first avidly read Jules Verne's Voyage to the Centre of the Earth. He studied under the French archeologists Cartailhac and Bergouen, under Explorer-Geologist Edouard-Alfred Martel. When he was iS, the War broke out and he went to the trenches. The life of a soldier, he says, made him physically tough and inured him to hardship...
...Speleologist Casteret has explored more than 500 caverns and underground water courses, mostly in the Pyrenees where he was born. He has. in the words of a colleague, "made the subterranean Pyrenees his own, and this is a promising chapter in applied hydrogeology." In Ten Years Under the Earth, a book full of first-rate scientific adventure which has been saluted by the French Academy of Sciences, he relates, among many others, this plunge into the Earth's dark bowels...