Horat Ajsc-44

A 30 m deep fissure in the Liat area (Val d'Aran), SE of the Tuc de Crabes, about 160 metres N of the GR-211 path. Discovered and explored by the AJSC on 25 August 1972.

Canejan • Val d'Aran 100m 30m

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Horat Ajsc-44

A 30 m deep fissure in the Liat area (Val d'Aran), SE of the Tuc de Crabes, about 160 metres N of the GR-211 path. Discovered and explored by the AJSC on 25 August 1972.

Canejan · Val d'Aran

Length: 100 m · Depth: 30 m

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A 30 m deep fissure in the Liat area (Val d'Aran), SE of the Tuc de Crabes, about 160 metres N of the GR-211 path. Discovered and explored by the AJSC on 25 August 1972.

Characteristics

Type: Pothole
Municipality: Canejan
Region: Val d'Aran
Unit: Val d'Aran
Length: 100 meters
Depth: 30 meters
Major Unit: Pirineu Axial
Lithology: Marble
Updated on EspeleoÍndex: November 19, 2018

Location

SE of the Tuc de Crabes. About 160 metres N of the path (GR-211) that leads from the Liat mines to Sant Joan de Toran. Shortly before the turn-off to the coll de Güèrri.

Approximate coordinates. Calculated from the Lambert coordinates recorded in the explorers' report and reconverted using a calculation system provided by our colleague Josep Guarro, which appears to be fairly reliable (error of less than 50 metres).

Entrances

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Ajsc-44, Horat
Elevation: 2360 m
42.801774, 0.857355
UTM 31T (ETRS89) 324793 4741029
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Topographic

Horat Ajsc-44 - Topography, Canejan, Val d'Aran

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Description

Morphology

Also called by its explorers “la Grande Crevasse” (the Great Crevasse). An elongated opening allows access, by means of a lateral step between blocks (cleared between the rock and a plug of ice), to a descending gallery about 30 metres long that ends in a small lateral shaft between blocks (the point of maximum depth). The main fissure continues ahead in the same direction, but ascending and with the floor full of blocks. In the final stretch, and after about 60 metres of passage, it narrows until it becomes impassable.

Progression

Unsuccessful attempt at clearing.

History

Discovered and explored by members of the speleology section of the AJSC (La Courneuve, FR) on 25 August 1972. Nothing had ever been known of the activities of this French group, carried out on both sides of the border during the summers of 1971 and 1972, until last 13 October 2018 (after coinciding in the area, in the summer of 2018, with a Franco-Belgian group carrying out a campaign) when our colleagues Josep Guarro and Joan Carles Juderías made a tour of the area. Josep was able to locate a member of that group and gave him a copy of the report of their activities, which he has kindly ceded to us so that we could include in Espeleoíndex some unpublished cavities of the Liat area. Only three of them appear to be of any interest and accompany the survey; the rest are very small and some practically impenetrable.

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Bibliography

Memòria: Prospection region de Pic de Mauberme (Ariège – Espagne) 1971 – 1972. Section spéléologique AJSC de la Courneuve (Seine – Saint-Denis, FR).