Re: Re: [Texascavers] Caver Statues

[tbsamsel]

How about caver garden gnomes? 
 
TNov 8, 2009 04:03:50 PM, gi...@att.net wrote:

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Mark Minton  wrote:
   Apparently a statue of Martel was made.  According to this biography I'll bet there are others.

In further discussion it has been suggested that we locate a suitable property and set up a statue garden of famous and nearly famous cavers. 

My suggestion to that is to find a (more-or-less) large, one or two room cave and make a caver grave yard and statue garden. Famous cavers statues could be cast showing them crawling out of  small passage or climbing a wall or rope (cable) or standing around the grave of one of their former caving companions. 
--Ediger

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RE: [Texascavers] Caver Statues

[Linda Palit]

Okay, so we need to find a suitable cave and make a statue garden with
appropriate area additions. 

Let's start looking for an appropriate location.  

 

Any suggestions?  

What happened to 

 

From: bgillegi...@gmail.com [mailto:bgillegi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Gill
Edigar
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Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Caver Statues

 

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Mark Minton  wrote:

   Apparently a statue of Martel was made.  According to this biography
I'll bet there are others.

 

In further discussion it has been suggested that we locate a suitable
property and set up a statue garden of famous and nearly famous cavers. 

 

My suggestion to that is to find a (more-or-less) large, one or two room
cave and make a caver grave yard and statue garden. Famous cavers statues
could be cast showing them crawling out of  small passage or climbing a wall
or rope (cable) or standing around the grave of one of their former caving
companions. 

--Ediger

Re: [Texascavers] Caver Statues

[Gill Edigar]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Mark Minton  wrote:

>Apparently a statue of Martel was made.  According to this
> biography I'll bet there are others.


In further discussion it has been suggested that we locate a suitable
property and set up a statue garden of famous and nearly famous cavers.

My suggestion to that is to find a (more-or-less) large, one or two room
cave and make a caver grave yard and statue garden. Famous cavers statues
could be cast showing them crawling out of  small passage or climbing a wall
or rope (cable) or standing around the grave of one of their former caving
companions.
--Ediger

[Texascavers] Caver Statues

[Mark Minton]

>I wonder if there are any other statues of 
cavers in the world? Are there of E.A. Martel or Norbert Casteret in France?


>>There is one of Xu Xiake (pronounced Shoe 
She-ah-kur) in front of the Institute of Karst Geology in Guilin, China.


Apparently a statue of Martel was 
made.  According to this biography in Acta 
Carsologica 
 
it was made in the Cévennes region of France, but 
it doesn't state whether it is still displayed 
anywhere  (see the Conclusion).  Here is 
another:  Emil Racovita of Romania.  His bust 
stands in the city of Cluj, where the Romanian 
Institute of Speleology "Emil Racovita" is 
located. 
 
I'll bet there are others.


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[Texascavers] Caver statues

[Gill Edigar]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:33 PM,  wrote:

>  I'd nominate Bob Hudson, pioneer Texas caver from the early 1950s.  He
> was one of the first serious cavers in Texas and was a founder of the UTG.
> He explored hundreds of caves, some of which have not been visited since. He
> also established the first cave files for the state and wrote some of the
> first articles on Texas caves that appeared in the NSS News.
> Jerry.
>

I screwed up really badly about 15 years ago. Bob was living across the
street from Terry Sayther and I went over an had a long talk with him. He
was suffering from advanced diabetes and had had one leg--at least--removed,
so was in a wheel chair. I got the OK to come back and do an audio interview
with him but somehow never got it together to get back over there before he
died. I've regretted that ever since.
--Ediger