Nancy Pistole
(USA)
Laos 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014
Nancy is a long time veteran of caving and has been on most
continents. Her caving area is south of the her home town
Los Angeles in the neighboring countries of Mexico and
Guatemala
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Matt Oliphant (USA)
Laos 2011/ 2012 / 2013 / 2014
Matt is from Los Angeles. He can tell endless stories about
caves and adventures all round the world with special focus
on Mexico and Guatemala. He is fascinated of photographing
and caries always a good selection of cameras.
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Carsten Ebenau
(Germany)
Laos 2012 / 2013 / 2014
Carstenis a long-time member of the
Arbeitskreis Kluterthöhle in Germany and has made several
caving expeditions to Syria. Carsten is a specialist in
bats. He runs a construction engineering consultancy.
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Urs Etter
(Switzerland)
Laos 2012 / 2013
Urs grew up with caving in the famous
Siebenhengste area of Switzerland and actively drove the
extention of the large system. An oversea caving trip to
Indonesia got him interested in tropical caving in addition
of expeditions to New Zealand and Oman. He lives near Bern
and works at the Swiss railway.
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Irina Ermakova (Russia)
Laos 2012 / 2013 / 2014
Irina from St. Petersburg in Russia is a full-time cave
instructor for youth groups and schools. She is an
experienced cave surveyor and cave diver.
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Yulia Chistyakova (Russia)
Laos 2013 / 2014
Yulia
is a Newcomer to speleology but enchanted the expedition
with her great motivation and her teaching of Russian
vocabulary. She works on customers relations in a company in
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Teryy Bolger (USA)
Laos 2013 / 2014
Terry
is a long-time US caver and a landuse consultant who lives
and works in Vientiane. He has an in-depth knowledge about
Laos and its administrative procedures and life style. |
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Angela Morgan (USA)
Laos 2013 / 2014
Angela is using her two living bases in USA and Thailand for
participation in worldwide expeditions. She is also member
of the Hong Meigui Society in China . |
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David Eskes
(Netherlands)
Laos 2000 (Dutch expedition), Laos
2005 / 2010 / 2012
David was coordinator of the first large scale expedition to
Northern Laos. He returns as often to Laos as his growing
family allows.
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Jean-Pierre Bartholeyns (Belgium)
Laos 2014
Participates and organizes expeditions to Brazil, France,
Gabon, India, Iran, Macedonia, Mexico, Switzerland,
Tanzania and... He is strongly involved in the karst and
cave protection since the early 70’ in Belgium. He is in
charge of the Karst and Cave Protection in the
International Union of Speleology.
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Manuel Borruat
(Switzerland)
Laos 2012
Manuel
is from Lausanne and did caving in several areas in
Switzerland. He came to Laos from a work trip in China and
is looking for adventures in Asia.
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Marc Vandermeulen (Belgium)
Laos 2014
Caver and cave diver. Participates and organizes caving or cave diving expeditions in Italy,
Philippines, Macedonia, France, Switzerland and other countries. Enjoys exploring remote
and inaccessible cavities like “Matka Vrelo” in Macedonia or “Sulpan Cave System » in Samar (Philippines).
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Dmitry Bogushev (Russia)
Laos 2012
Dmitry is a cave diver, who got interested in Lao
caves because he visited some interesting resurgences in
Vang Vieng. He works as a sea container consolidator and
logistics agent.
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Jos Burgers (Netherlands)
Laos 2000 (Dutch expedition) / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 /
2010 / 2011
Joss is the official survey expert of the
expedition and loves cave mapping over all. His
participation is a guarantee that none of the evenings is
boring. He lives in The Hague. |
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Wolfgang Zillig (Germany)
Laos 2003 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2010
Wolfgang is the survey software expert and expedition
photographer. He like to modify survey equipment and
to improve his photo equipment. Latest he is busy to create
3d flights into cave systems. |
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Liz Price (Great Britain)
Laos 2006 / 2007 / 2008
Liz is "the" person that knows all about expeditions in South-East Asia. She is very much interested in
biospeleology
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Hong Tong (Laos)
Laos 2005 / 2006
Hong Tong is the chief guide
of the ecotourism micro project in Vieng Phouka. He is very
familar with nature and culture of Laos and a perfect guide. |
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Juu Moua (Laos)
Laos 2005 / 2007 / 2008
Juu enriched our
understanding of Laos as reliable guide and translator. He
also introduced us to Hmong traditions and impressed us
every evening with Hmong networking in every town. He worked as freelance guide in Luang Prabang
and started studying later in Thailand. |
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Francois Brouquisse (France)
Laos 2008 / 2009
Francois is one of the first cavers to Laos. He started in
1994 together with Claude Mouret an ongoing series of
expeditions to the Southern Khammouane province. His heart
is in hydro geological investigations. While doing it he
forgets the world around him. |
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Lica Ersek (Romania)
Laos 2009 / 2010
Lica is the climate expert of the expedition. He
investigates speleothems to learn about climate changes in
the past. He accompanies the project within his Post doc
work at the Earth Science Department of the University of
Oxford. |
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Dave Clucas (Great Britain)
Laos 2009 / 2010
Dave is a longtime veteran of the Mulu caves in
Sarawak/Malaysia. He convinced everybody of advanced survey
technique by using a distometer with integrated compass and
clino. |
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Jean Charbonnel (France)
Laos 2011
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Marcel Dikstra (Netherlands)
Laos 2011
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Emma Lundh (Sweden)
Laos 2008 / 2010Emma visited Laos
the first time for her diploma theses at Uppsala university
about plants in Laos for pharmaceutical use. Now she came
back again to discover the caves. She lives in Sweden after
returning from Cran Canaria. |
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Thomas Matthalm (Germany)
Laos 2010
Thomas finally made it to Laos after many trips deep into
the caves of the Untersberg near Salzburg. His
specialty is Asian food - whether in the jungle camp with
fresh frogs from the forest or at the Indian Restaurant in
Pakbeng. |
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Christiane Grebe (Germany)
Laos 2010
Christiane is member of the Swiss caving community and
lives in Bern. She is truly active to bring European cavers
together and participates in many caving events. |
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Katy Roodenko (Israel)
Laos 2008Katy is member of the caving group in
Berlin in non-caving area. She discovered the world of cave
survey in a impressive crash course. |
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Torben Redder (Denmark)
Laos 2009
Torben was the best equiped person of the expedition and had
virtually everything. A wet suit appeared for river caves
beside intensive photo and video equipment. The convincing
way he gave us director commands indicates a great career as
film maker. |
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Wietske van den Berge
(Netherlands)
Laos 2008
Cave surveying in it's best is the aim of Wietske. She loves
to draw cave sketches.
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Udi Fuchs (Belgium)
Laos 2008His heart is in cave
photography. Unfortunately there is never enough time for
this at expeditions. |
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Sergey Tarasov (Russia)
Laos 2008
Sergey is since his youth interested in all kind of beetles
and insects. He is guest researcher at the National
University of Laos in Vientane. |
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Steve Weston (Great Britain)
Laos 2007
Steve lives near London. He caves in Yorkshire since
many years. His British understatement and humor certainly
contributes to the European expedition feeling. Bamboo rats are his
favourite animals. |
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Gerhard Binder (Germany)
Laos 2005 |
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Horst Brand (Germany)
Laos 2005 |
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Stefanie Jamann (Germany)
Laos 2005 |
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