PARTICIPANTS

Dr. ALEXEY DUDASHVILI (Kyrgyzstan)

Tomasz Kochanowicz, is a Polish born Canadian, who has lived in Calgary and the Canadian Rockies for the last 16 years. He is an IT professional who splits his free time between caving and cave diving in Canada’s cold sumps and the warm water of Mexico’s cenotes. Cave diving turned out to be a bit of an obsession, looking for new unexplored dry and wet passages, which spilled over to multiple travel trips to Mexico, Florida, within Alberta, and beautiful British Columbia. Tomasz has participated in multiple projects as a push diver and dry caver. He is passing on his love of climbing and adventure to his two children, and letting his wife live vicariously through his adventures.

President of the association Regard sur l’Aventure
Trainer at the European Center for outdoors Sports
Manager for Caminaterra agency
I have made many expeditions of speleological exploration and canyoning in France and abroad.

I have been speleology for 40 years.

Lionel REVIL – 41 years old
– Guide Speleo Canyon State Graduate.
– Associate trainer at CREPS Rhône-Alpes Auvergne.
– Alpine rescue tracker.
– Assistant Technical Advisor in Speleo Rescue near the Prefect of Isère.
– Caving expedition: Slovenia, Tunisia, Morocco, China, Bosnia, Switzerland, Italy.
– Sea Kayaking: Arctic Svalba Archipelago

Vincent ROUYER – 53 years old
– Physical education teacher
– Trainer in speleology, climbing and canyoning
– Mountain expedition in to Peru in the white cordillera
– Climbing expedition in USA Yosemite National Park

Yannick BAUX – 31 years old
– State Graduate in Speleology
– Practice mountaineering, waterfall and climbing
– Climbing Initiator
– Team leader within the SSF
– Canyon Expedition in Chilean Patagonia

Yann AUFFRET – 27 years old
– Graduate in Technological Project Management
– Caving master in the French federation
– Team leader of French caving rescue
– Speleological expeditions in Spain (6 times from 2008 to 2014), Austria (3 times from 2013 to 2015), Turkey (2016),
Chilean Patagonia (2017), Morocco (2017), Uzbekistan (2018)
– Canyon trips in Reunion Island, France and Spain

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Henri PYKA – 46 years old
– French State Diploma in Climbing
– French State Diploma in Canyoning
– University Diploma of Technology in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Resistance
– Head of nature sports company Bureau des Moniteurs du Pays Niçois
– Teacher at CREPS Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, European Center for Nature Sports (Fr)
– Expeditions Climbing: USA Yosemity National Park, Taghia Morocco, Jordan Wadi Rum…
– Ice waterfalls: Vallon de Feissinières, Ceillac, Fournel
– Canyon Explorations : France, Italy, Spain, Acores Flores Island, Rios Patagonicos 2018 Chili
– Speleological Explorations : Gouffre Berger, Gouffre du Lonné Peyret, Gouffre du Couey Lodge, Fond de Gournier,
Crossing the old.

Pierrick CORDIER – 36 years old
– Professional mountain rescuer in Gendarmerie nationale.
– Professional speleology guide
– Travel in Iceland, africa, USA, indonesia, jungle of french Guyana…

Pauline CHAUVET – 31 years old
– Professional guide of canyoning and trekking
– Co-organizer of Ice Climbing festival in French Alps
– Canyon expédition in Patagonia, Azores, Reunion.
– Trips and travels in Chili, Europe, Maroco, Vietnam, etc…

Mathieu VERMEIL – 35 years old
– Professional firefighter in the Pynérées.
Member of the GRIMP 65 and GSMSP 64 recently.
GRIMP : Recognition and Intervention Group in a Perilous Environment
GSMSP : Mountain Rescue Group Firefighters
– Participating at “Exploration sur le plus haut Karst d’Europe”, speleology in ice in caves.
– Summer / winter mountaineering practice, climbing, ice climbing, canyoning, caving

Gaël AMIARD – 35 years old
– Hydrogeologist
– Pratice speleology for several years.
– Participating at “Exploration sur le plus haut Karst d’Europe”, speleology in ice in caves.
– Memory on the Antarctic continent “Statistical studies of the Antarctic basement from digital maps for modeling
polar ice caps”.
– Passionate about Climatology/Meteorology/Glaciology.

Barnabé FOURGOUS – 39 years old
– Cave and Canoyning Instructor
– Membre of the French Caving Association and Cave rescue
– Caving expedition Abkhazia, China, Europe, Mexico, New Zelande, Papoua New-Guinea, Sultanat of Oman and
numerous explorations in France
– Ice Cave exploration in the French and Swiss Alps since 2005

Yoann SUBERVIOLLE – 29 years old
Director – Camera Operator
– Director of photography since 2015 on many clips, commercials and short films.
– Director of two high mountain films “Emptiness” (2016) and “Gavarnie: a look at adventure” (2018)

Marie GRAMOND – 27 years old
Director – Camera Operator
– Graduate of production-trades of the plateau at ESEC in 2014 (School Sup of Cinematographic Studies)
– Director of two short fiction films “Redo the Voyage” and “Their Ideal” and the documentary film “Gavarnie: a look
at the Adventure”
– Head operator on the short film “Emptiness” directed by Yoann Suberviolle and the documentary feature film “The
Roses and the Blues” directed by Claudia Lopez-Lucia.
– Several shootings in the mountains between 2016 and 2018, including “Gavarnie: A look at adventure” combining
high mountain and caving.

Sylvain chaux

Alessio Romeo (Italy)

Photographer, geologist, glacier cave expert

Michele Pazzini (Italy)

41 Years Old – 20 Years of caving experience.

Lee Kian Lie (Malaysia)

a.       Certified and Experience with Rebreather, Technical and Cave Diving

b.       Active in rock and tree climbing. Also active in dry caving activities

c.       Speaker for DRT Show Malaysia 2019 on “Cave Exploration in Malaysia” and “Cave Exploration in Sulawesi”

d.       Speaker for Thailand Dive Expo 2019 on “South East Asia Underwater Cave Exploration Projects”

e.       Passionate in caving and cave diving, been exploring to:

a.       Sungai Lembing Mines (the deepest mines in the world that reach to 700m below water level):                                                                                                                                              

Currently running the underwater cave exploration project in this abandoned mines. Managed to discover the main entrance into the mines and exploration project is still on-going

b.       Sulawesi Cave Exploration project

Discovered and explore new underwater cave in this region. Discovered fossils and unknown species that are living deep inside the underwater cave

Natalya Frantsuzova (Kyrgyzstan)
Expedition Cook
Every year he works in a climbing camp on the Enilchek glacier.

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Technical specialist in the base camp.
Cook’s assistant