Sechs Frauen treffen sich an einem abgelegenen Gebirgszug der Appalachen, um dort ein verzweigtes Höhlensystem zu erforschen. Als sie jedoch den Rückweg antreten wollen, versperrt ein herabgefallener Felsen den Ausgang. Auf der Suche nach einem anderen Ausweg bemerken die Frauen, dass in der Höhle blutdurstige Kreaturen leben, die sich perfekt an die Umgebung angepasst haben und ohne Vorwarnung angreifen.
It has been almost thirty years since Filippo Dobrilla started to sculpt a giant male nude inside a cave 650 metres deep in the Apuan Alps. This almost inaccessible place has jealously protected his secret: his youthful passion for a fellow climber, a passion Filippo was only able to indulge in here in the intimacy of this cave. Even after it was over and ever since then, Filippo has been returning regularly to the cave to work on the most important sculpture of his life, a masterpiece no one will see.
In einem spanischen Pyrenäendorf wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Die Frau eines Höhlenforschers, der mit seinem Assistenten eine neu entdeckte Höhle erschließen will, wird vergewaltigt. Beim Versuch, seine Frau zu rächen, tötet der Forscher einen alten Mann. Ein junger Polizist verspricht, die Tat gegen ein Entgelt zu vertuschen. Die Vergewaltigte willigt ein, doch alle Beteiligten verstricken sich immer mehr in Unrecht und Schuld.
Greenland, the largest island in the world, is unlike any other country. The film recounts the exploration of the Inlandis cavities in Greenland during the summer of 1992. Janot Lamberton, one of the pioneers of these expeditions, ventured, with speleologists and mountaineers, into the moulins, these immense crevasses that tear through the back of the Inlandis, a vast glacier four times the size of France, while glaciologist Louis Reynaut studies infraglacial phenomena. It is obviously not easy to penetrate the depths of the ice and film at a depth of 150 meters in sub-zero temperatures. The light is blue in one of the most fascinating landscapes on the planet, where scientists and explorers collaborate to deepen their knowledge of the Earth.
Caves of Glass is a documentary from director Sid Perou's Realm of Darkness series, focusing on the ice caves of the Austrian Tennengebirge Alps, including the Eisriesenweld and Eiskogelhöhle. It features Austrian speleologist Fritz Oedl, Belgian speleologist Guy Meauxsoone, and Ian "Tommo" White of the Northern Caving Community. First broadcast on Channel 4 on February 15, 1986, it won a Special Mention at the 5th Barcelona International Festival of Esoteric Cinema that same year.
The Mer de Glace in Chamonix, November 86: every summer the meltwater that runs on the surface of the glacier flows into a huge crevasse called "a mill". In 1897, Joseph VALLOT had explored it to a depth of 60m, a lake had prevented him from going any further. Since then no one had descended into this well. In the fall, a multidisciplinary team made up of mountaineers including Jean Marc BOIVIN, speleologists and scientists descending into the crevasse... Superb images and live comments in a temperature of 0° and a humidity of 100%. The team reached 110m deep under the ice, a world first in glacier exploration. Jean marc BOIVIN seems delighted with his first speleological exploration. With the participation of Serge AVIOTTE, Jean Michel ASSELIN, Jean Marc BOIVIN, Janot LAMBERTON, Pierrot PILLET, Louis REYNAUD, Jean Luc RIGAUD and Denis TERMIER.
This Sportscope short documentary takes a look at a group of Austrian speleologists who explore a newly-discovered cave.