Cave Holy-Anne

Cave Saint-Anne of Tilff.

The Porch measurement 4 to 5 meters height, on 10 broad and about fifteen meters of depth. It gives access to the Cave Holy-Anne, great classic of the Spéléologie and one of the most attended Wallonia. It is in March 1837, after a Tir of mine that workmen Carrier S reflect up to date the entry of the Grotte of Tilff. The cavity with a total development of + 1542 meters for a 35 meters depth, it presents 4 superimposed stages and is traversed by a pretty river. The entry is barred of a door provided with a lock “UBS” (Belgian Union of Speleology).

In 1962, Etienne Lemaire of the GAS discovered the higher network of the cave, while crossing celebrates it “Letter-box”. Etienne, definitively left us in December 2004.

Declared cave-school by the U.B.S. (Belgian Union of Speleology), the cave Saint-Anne is regularly visited by groups of young people who framed by Spéléologue S confirmed devote themselves to an initiation with this activity. ADEPS as of many clubs of spéléo organize initiations there.

The cave is in bottom of a rock bearing the same name and being able to be used for techniques of Spéléo-alpine or Escalade.

External references

Belgian Union of Speleology
seen site on Maps.Google
Information and details: ROCKS OF TILFF
Blocks and Falaises of Wallonia - Valley of Ourthe -2002 - J-C VITTOZ

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