Veryovkina (-2204 m), the new deepest cave in the world!

Russian speleologists deepened the Veryovkina cave in Abkhazia, Caucasus during the expedition from 14th August to 4th September 2017. The new depth is 2204 m. It overtook Krubera cave (-2197 m) by 7 meters and has become the new deepest cave in the world! Nine speleologists reached the bottom of the cave. Congratulations!

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