C024

You descend without difficulty into the 1-metre-diameter earthy opening to reach A tiny chamber. Throughout the cavity, the shafts are generously sized; the difficulties come from the meanders and the shaft tops, which are consistently narrow.

A strongly descending and fairly narrow meander leads to the top of the first 11-metre shaft. The bottom is choked with scree, and you must pendulum three metres above the floor to reach A balcony from which the second, five-metre shaft starts. A short meander is occupied by A third shaft (6 metres), also blocked at the bottom; here too, A pendulum gives access to A window opening into the fourth shaft (11 metres). A rapidly narrowing meander follows. After A descent in opposition, A severe squeeze (first blasting) leads to the top of the fifth shaft (11 metres). A new blasting allowed A window 4 metres high to be widened and the current bottom of the cavity to be reached after A sixth shaft of 15 metres. Two other blastings showed the limited interest of another departure. The draught enters 7 metres above the bottom into A narrow passage requiring further blasting. At -81 m an extremely narrow meander starts. The cavity has been fully rigged since 2005 (see the rigging sheet below).