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Flash Back December 1996
Subcontinent’s Longest Cave
A joint team of four Germans and members of the Meghalaya Adventure Association while exploring a nearby natural cave system at Lumshnong in the Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya stumbled upon what they claim to be the longest ever cave system in the subcontinent.
The cave, locally known as Krem – Um – Lawan, extends to a surveyed length of 6,381 metres with scope for further extension. With a surveyed depth of 108.8 metres, it also has the distinction of being the deepest cave in the Indian subcontinent. There are about 200 caves in Meghalaya and only 50 of them have so far been explored, according to the Secretary of the MAA Mr. B. B. Kharpran Daly who led the joint expedition in the Jaintia Hills.
A series of expeditions by the British and German cavers over the past three years have confirmed that Krem – Um – Lawan is the longest cave discovered so far in the whole subcontinent.
