E-31 del Mongioie
Cave with an entrance characterized by a wedged boulder, a descent over unstable blocks to a chamber with snow and several branches, including a closed pit and a final 10 m shaft ending at a narrow squeeze.
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E-31 del Mongioie
Cave with an entrance characterized by a wedged boulder, a descent over unstable blocks to a chamber with snow and several branches, including a closed pit and a final 10 m shaft ending at a narrow squeeze.
Roccaforte Mondovì
Length: 56 m · Depth: 20 m
Updated record
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Cave with an entrance characterized by a wedged boulder, a descent over unstable blocks to a chamber with snow and several branches, including a closed pit and a final 10 m shaft ending at a narrow squeeze.
Description
Morphology
The entrance is characterized by a wedged boulder (useful for the rope belay), which leads down a descent over unstable blocks to a chamber with snow. Several branches start from here. The 1st is very wide and seems the logical continuation of the cavity: it consists of a subsequent chamber, deeper than the previous one and of roughly equal dimensions. The 2nd branch begins with a narrow descending fissure that leads into a closed pit. The cave continues for 5-6 m along the vertical fissure, thus reaching a small flat area beneath which the last shaft (10 m) opens, ending at a narrow squeeze, and above which there is a 6 m chimney in the fissure.
Other details
Cave excavated in places under pressure along a pre-existing tectonic fracture. (ORSO SPELEO n°3)
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Source: Catasto speleologico del Piemonte e della Valle d'Aosta (AGSP, catastogrotte-piemonte.net) (catastogrotte-piemonte.net), modified. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Associazione Gruppi Speleologici Piemontesi (AGSP), Catasto Speleologico Piemontese e Valdostano · https://catastogrotte-piemonte.net/caves-view-285.html · data as of 2026