Very cool Logan! I spent some time with Jacques Chabert at the Vercor Speleo film festival in France in the 1980s, then corresponded with him a bit in 2008. And, of course, caught up with Michel Siffre at the ICS in 2009.
On 8/29/14, 10:58 PM, "Logan McNatt via Texascavers" <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: >Thanks Carl, for all that great historical information and photo. >I see that Michel Siffre and his right-hand man Gerard Cappa signed the >register. I had not seen them since the 1972 Midnight Cave project when >Pete Strickland and I and other cavers helped Gerard, Jacques Chabert and >crew dismantle the cave camp. In '72 Gerard spoke no English and I >spoke no French, so our communications about the tasks at hand were >limited to primitive verbal noises, animated gestures, and crude sketches >in >the dirt. Since then Michel & Gerard had spent a lot of time in Mexico >and Guatemala, so Gerard had learned Spanish, and I knew some. We had >great fun finally explaining to each other what we had been trying to say >in 1972! > >Logan McNatt >lmcn...@austin.rr.com >_______________________________________________ >Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com >Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: >http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ >http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
