Objectives

Our Expedition Objectives

Cavers have spent over thirty years exploring the caves of this plateau – the Huautla Cave System, descending shafts, crawling along passages, scrambling down slopes, climbing waterfalls, sliding down tyroleans, diving underwater sections known as sumps and mapping the cave. The Huautla Cave system is currently 62km long and over 1400m deep. At the other end of the plateau the in the Santo Domingo Canyon the water which runs though the Huautla system re-emerges to the outside world. Between the ends of these explored caves a gap of more than four kilometres exists and a connection would make the system 73…

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Live Updates

Follow our progress 'live'

Follow our progress 'live' via updates to our Facebook page which are re-posted here. In the lead up to the expedition we will be updating everyone as we prepare to depart. A lot of work, training and preparation goes into a large expedition like this and you can follow the team members as they get ready to head to Mexico in 2011.

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Exploration Chronology

About >> Background

Background to Pena Colorada

In May of 1981 a reconnaissance trip to the Santo Domingo Canyon was fielded to look for resurgence springs for Sistema Huautla. During this trip, Bill Stone and Pat Wiedeman were shown the entrance to the Cueva de la Peña Colorada, an enormous fossil resurgence cave that, in high water, still issued enough water from its entrance to fill a 20 meter wide arroyo. During the dry season it is possible to descend more than 30 meters vertically into the cave to where one quickly comes to Sump 1, the first underwater tunnel. During a return in 1992, which included…

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