Creux de la Pierre du Frère
Small pit in a superb massif, with a 7-metre shaft, main gallery and a small terminal chamber downstream.
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Creux de la Pierre du Frère
Small pit in a superb massif, with a 7-metre shaft, main gallery and a small terminal chamber downstream.
Arith
Length: 445 m · Depth: 59 m
Updated record
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Small pit in a superb massif, with a 7-metre shaft, main gallery and a small terminal chamber downstream.
Description
Morphology
At the bottom of the 7-metre shaft, the upstream section can be visited; to go downstream, you enter a crawlway in the floor and reach the large gallery. On the way down, there is a dig on the left with a small vertical drop, also visitable for anyone who wants to squeeze through a constriction. The main gallery is pretty. To visit the small terminal chamber downstream, you have to look on the right for a crawlway at floor level with a small puddle.
Speleothems
Careful: the formations are poorly fixed to the floor; touching them risks making them fall.
Progression
a rope of about fifteen metres is needed, to be tied to a tree; there should be an (old) spit on the rocky ledge.
Other details
It is a pretty little hole, on a superb massif; it is worth walking up to the ridges: there are rock arches and a fine lapiaz.
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Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/36762 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected] · data as of 2026 · Source: Grottocenter (Association Wikicaves), worldwide collaborative cave database (grottocenter.org), modified. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Grottocenter (Wikicaves) · Text by Soufflet Benjamin (Description générale) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/36762 · data as of 2026