Talk:Caving/Notable cave explorers
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Notable cave explorers
[edit]- Bishop, Stephen (USA) Early (~1830s) explorer of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.
- Boegli, Alfred (Switzerland) Explorer of Hoelloch, Switzerland.
- Brucker, Roger (USA) Explorer and historian of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.
- Casteret, Norbert (France)
- Chevalier, Pierre (France)
- Collins, Floyd (USA) Early explorer (~1920s) of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.
- Conn, Herb (USA) Explorer and Surveyor of Jewel Cave, South Dakota.
- Conn, Jan (USA) Explorer and Surveyor of Jewel Cave, South Dakota.
- Coons, Donald (USA) Prominent American caver involved with numerous international caving projects. Major discoveries in Big Island, Hawaii and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky region.
- Cornes, George (UK) Discovered Lancaster Hole with Bill Taylor in 1946
- Eavis, Andrew (UK) British caver, President of the International Union of Speleology UIS). Discoverer of the three largest chambers in the world. Involved with numerous international caving projects. Major discoveries in Saravak, Borneo and in China.
- Exley, Sheck (USA) Pioneering Cave Diver.
- Farr, Martyn (UK) Made major advances in systems such as Ogof y Daren Cilau, and pioneering cave diver, pushing exploration in Wookey Hole, Dan yr Ogof, and others
- Hetman, Mike (US) Pioneer in the field of abandoned mine research.
- Irvine, George (USA) Pioneering cave diver and head of Woodville Karst Plain Project.
- Jablonski, Jarrod (USA) Pioneering cave diver and head of Global Underwater Explorers.
- de Joly, Robert (France)
- Max Kaemper (Germany) Produced accurate instrumental survey of portions of Mammoth Cave in 1908.
- Kambesis, Patricia (USA) Prominent American cave surveyor. Involved with numerous international caving projects. Major discoveries in Big Island, Hawaii, and Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico.
- Klimchouk, Alexander (Ukraine) Prominent cave explorer in eastern European countries and influential member of the UIS.
- Moni, Gerald (USA) Tennessee Alabama Georgia (TAG) Moni has explored thousands of caves, and mapped hundreds upon hundreds, and is a director of the TCS (Tennessee Cave Survey).
- Martel, Édouard-Alfred (France) Pioneering French cave scientist and explorer. Often credited as the father of speleology.
- Petzl, Fernand (France)
- Quick, Peter (USA) Lead explorer involved with the Fisher Ridge Cave System, Kentucky.
- Simpson, Eli (UK)
- Smith, Marion O. (USA) Tennessee Alabama Georgia (TAG) civil war historian who has explored more than 6000 different caves and dropped more than 4000 pits which are all documented in great detail in his journals.
- Stone, William (USA) Pioneering cave diver and prominent explorer of southern Mexico's deep cave systems.
- Warild, Al (Aus) Prominent Australian cave explorer who has explored caves in Mexico, New Guinea, Europe and many other countries. Outstanding vertical caver and climber.
- Waters, Shelah (USA) Early Tennessee cave explorer. Shelah Waters explored Higgenbotham Cave in 1869. Today Higgenbotham Cave is known as Cumberland Cavern