Friday, 29 03 2024
Friday, 29 03 2024
12:54
Starting today, Belarusians are prohibited from owning drones
12:35
No precipitation is expected, the air temperature will rise by 8-10 degrees
12:16
“Russia deceived us and tried to drag us into a new war, already on the territory of Armenia.” Alain Simonyan
11:57
“No one in Armenia has the right to hand over anything by law.” Alain Simonyan
11:38
The ideologies of European party unions were discussed at the KP session
11:19
A military plane fell into the sea in Sevastopol
11:00
The humanitarian aid sent by Armenia to Gaza is in Egypt
USA
10:41
The USA informed Russia about the terrorist threat on March 7
10:22
Russians are losing interest in Dubai
10:03
The EU will present the plan for the supply of weapons to Ukraine by April
16:04
Israel liquidated 200 Hamas militants in Ash-Shifa hospital
15:45
“The special services of Germany did not know about the terrorism being prepared near Moscow.” Scholz
15:26
“The question of leaving the EAEU is not being discussed now.” Maria Karapetyan
15:07
Clinton lobbied to swap Navalny with Krasikov
14:48
Georgian parliamentarians visited Tsitsernakaberd
14:29
“Russia knew about the preparation of terrorism for more than a month.” Budanov
14:10
Vasquez and Nacho will also extend the contract with “Real.”
13:51
The new Ukrainian law discriminates against Russian speakers, Armenian speakers, and Roma
13:32
“It’s hard for me to stay in the football world.” Mkhitaryan gave a briefing
13:13
The Foreign Ministry of Latvia declared the Russian diplomat persona non grata
12:54
Armenia will send humanitarian aid to Gaza
12:35
Kroos will spend another year in Madrid
12:16
Weather without precipitation is expected
11:57
Georgia will receive 9.25 million euros from UEFA
11:38
Alen Simonyan presented the current security situation in the South Caucasus to his French colleagues
USA
11:19
“The main point of the US-Armenia-EU meeting is economic stability.” Miller
The Armenia-EU-USA meeting is not related to third countries
Nikol Pashinyan’s interview was published in The New York Times
10:22
Banks in Turkey, UAE, and China are delaying payments for Russian oil
“NATO member Turkey will not create problems in this case.” Edgar Vardanyan

Cavers ‘Caving’ in Armenia. The Armenian Mirror Spectator

The Armenian Mirror Spectator writes that on October 12, Dr. Charles Chavdarian, a native Detroiter whose family was originally from Keghi, provided an enlightening talk and slide presentation about the caves and caving exploration in Armenia, at a program sponsored by the Tekeyan Cultural Association, at the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Alex and Marie Manoogian School.

Chavdarian became intrigued with the subject while traveling in the south of France in 1992, and after reading The Scientific Traveler — a book about prehistoric cave paintings. Following this trip, he became interested in caves throughout the US and Canada, learning about them through the National Speleological Society and a local caving club in the San Francisco Bay Area and by visiting various national parks. He learned how to explore caves in a proper and safe manner from his newfound colleagues.

Chavdarian decided he wanted to do something for Armenia — and this led to his organizing the first official US caving expedition to visit and photograph caves in the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia in 2007. The initial trip involved his family — his wife, Seda, a professor of French at UC-Berkeley, and son, Greg, who is a geologist — and also his caving colleagues, Steven Johnson and James Wilson — all from the Bay Area. He has been to Armenia three times — in 2007, 2010 and 2011 — to continue to explore and photograph the natural, wild caves and also to visit and photograph church caves and cave villages. Chavdarian’s slides helped to educate all as he identified various types of beautiful cave formations that are part of living caves, including bacon strips, pipe organs, stalagmites, stalactites, coral, draperies and flowstone —all com- posed of limestone. The caves in Armenia are also multi-colored, due to both mineralization and organic matter leaching into the caves resulting in colored cave formations. The magnitude of colors in the Armenian caves, which are quite stunning, are, in fact, rarely encountered to this degree in caves around the world. Chavdarian acknowledged the assistance of several cave guides and experienced cave explorers during his trips to Armenia, including Vrezh Nazaryan, Samvel Shahinyan and Smbat Armenia and the exploration of Armenian caves a successful and safe one.

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